Word: brother-in-law
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...Lazati to find that the schoolteacher had drowned himself and the storekeeper had slashed his wrists and killed himself when accused of being an enemy of the state. As a Greek, Thomas Karathanos knew that at any moment he might be next. He talked things over with his brother-in-law. They worked out a bold plan to save the whole family: Thomas' mother, his sister and three in-laws...
Family Affair. In Salem, Mass., when two masked bandits went into the Surrette Storage Battery Co., Bookkeeper Josephine Russell recognized her brother-in-law in spite of his mask, later notified police, who nabbed both...
...necessary money out of his Irish peasants. CJ James Brudenell. seventh Earl of Cardigan, who led the Charge of the Light Brigade, had paid more than ?40.000 for command of the 9 Light Dragoons. Brave, handsome, bad-tempered and brainless. Lord Cardigan had a particular antipathy :his brother-in-law. Lord Lucan...
...knew anything, Lord Lucan knew that someone had blundered, and he would have liked to discuss the matter with Lord Cardigan. But the two peers were not only rank amateurs in war; for 30 years they had scarcely exchanged a word. So now Lord Lucan coldly ordered his brother-in-law "to advance down the . . . Valley with the Light Brigade." To which Lord Cardigan replied equally coldly: "Certainly, sir; but allow me to point out . . . that the Russians have a battery ... on our front, and batteries and riflemen on both sides...
...tanker was the latest ship to join the fleet of Stavros Spiros Niarchos, 44. With 39 ships totaling nearly 1,000,000 tons on the seas, Niarchos claims to be the biggest independent tanker operator in the world, an honor that is disputed by his wife's brother-in-law, Aristotle Socrates Onassis...