Word: brother-in-law
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...Reginald Manningham-Buller (known to fellow M.P.s as "Sir Reginald Bullying- Manner"), Attorney General; Lord Balniel, former Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Treasury and Ministry of Public Housing; Robert Boothby, the able and voluble Scottish M.P. who was elevated to the peerage. Then there is David Ormsby-Gore, brother-in-law of the Prime Minister's son, Maurice; he is Minister of State for Foreign Affairs...
Still another item disclosed that actor Peter Lawford Senator Kennedy's brother-in-law, was roaming the second floor of Bobby Kennedy's home in his stocking feet, tearing off the latest returns on the AP and UPI tickers...
...escaped being the same. He tried painting for a while, then gave it up in disgust because he decided he was only imitating his Paris friends, Suzanne Valadon, Raoul Dufy and Fernand Léger. He went back to selling wine, got "a wife, furniture, a maid, a brother-in-law, a car, kids." Then one day before World War II he started to paint again. "My wife didn't like it ... She disappeared. Bon voyage! The brother-in-law disappeared...
After God and Man, Buckley, in company with his brother-in-law, L. Brent Bozell, wrote a book called McCarthy and His Enemies, an apologia for the late Senator from Wisconsin that was soundly denounced by many who had never taken the trouble to read it. This established Bill Buckley as conservatism's enfant terrible as well as the scourge of liberalism. National Review, a magazine that would provide him with a regular opportunity to play both roles, was the result. He established National Review as the only U.S. magazine that would "stand athwart history yelling 'Stop...
...prince was already busy stumping in Polish hustings about the U.S. "He enjoys it very much," the princess told British newsmen. "And it is quite all right for him to campaign, although he is a British citizen." She had no comment on a whimsical report that if Brother-in-Law Kennedy gets the big job, she, the prince and Jackie Kennedy (who speaks five languages) will take over all the talking for the U.S.-broadcast Voice of America...