Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fancier Crosby as comfortably as the old clothes it gives him to wear. He rebels against the efforts of his fiancee and her moneybags father to imprison him in a job as the head of a paper box factory. Then, with the help of his fiancee's younger sister (who loves him from the start) and a colorful assortment of race-track characters, he scrounges enough cash to turn a long shot into a Derby winner...
...when he doesn't appear, no soap is sold. Price tries to muddle his mind, by sending Celeste Holm after him; he has tried to find his weak spot by getting the moronic quiz master (played appropriately by Art Linkletter, a real quiz master) to make love to his sister. Both agents fall in love with their enemies and consent to wed the day after the final question is asked in the Hollywood Bowl...
...Nancy that night, all right, but born dead, and that Richard disposed of it to save the family honor. In court, sullen Mrs. Randolph screened the deed with lies, waited till she got the erring lovers back home before she declared martial law in the family and assigned little sister Nancy to the most ignoble servant tasks...
Crafty, silver-tongued old Patrick ("Give me liberty") Henry wanted no part in the Randolph case. By 1793, he was in ill health and on the verge of retirement from his law practice. But when desperate Richard Randolph, accused with his sister-in-law of murdering her newborn baby, doubled the fee, Lawyer Henry could not resist. He fitted on his brown wig, and hurried over to Cumberland Courthouse to appear as chief counsel for the defense...
...just about everything a grade A murder trial needed. Handsome young Richard Randolph was a member of one of Virginia's first families, and for months before the alleged crime, people had been whispering that he was having an affair with his wife's 17-year-old sister Nancy, who lived with them. This much was clear: one night while the Randolphs and Nancy were visiting relatives, Nancy roused the household with "the unmistakable animal scream of a woman in labor." She swore she was only suffering from colic; but a week later, after the Randolphs had gone...