Word: sister-in-law
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...receiver of Whitehall, a Palm Beach hotel, and accepted $4,500 from Rankin in return; he collected $7,500 through other receiverships; he took a $2,000 legal fee while on the bench; he accepted free food, lodging and valet service at the bankrupt hotel of which his sister-in-law was made manager...
...years. Dr. August L. Mayer, Goya authority, had never heard of it but, instantly recognizing it as a Goya of about 1787. asked permission to include it in all future editions of his book, Francisco de Goya. Within a month it was sold to Mrs. William R. Timken, sister-in-law of Henry Holiday Timken, maker of Timken Roller Bearings (TIME, Aug. 19). Well known only to dealers is Mrs. Timken's collection which includes a Boucher, a Fragonard, a Gainsborough and a brace each of Greuzes. Rembrandts and Van Dycks. The lady with the parrot is Mrs. Timken...
Moreover, she was worried because her sister-in-law was trying to steal her son. The moppet was rescued by a mysterious young man who became devoted to him. This rescuer, too, turned out to be the Argentine millionaire. At this, the lovers penetrated the veils of mystery that had enveloped them. "In one stride he reached her. His fingers shook as he tipped up her face to the moonlight. He uttered a short sharp cry. His arms swept her close...
...couple of shells in my pocket, so ... I fired through the kitchen wall, intending to hit my father-in-law." Instead, Carol Douglas hit his year-old baby, his wife, his mother-in-law and his sister-in-law...
...cutaway ("the old suit I go to funerals in"), the President accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt, her sister-in-law Mrs. Gracie Hall Roosevelt, and Bodyguardsman Gus Gennerich wearing a new spotted necktie, celebrated Easter by attending services at St. Thomas' Episcopal Church...