Word: brother-in-law
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...arrived in New York with their eleven children. Sturdy Dutch burghers from Rotterdam, they had a somewhat unnerving time at LaGuardia Airport. They were surrounded by newsmen, and two-year-old Jacobus almost got tangled in a huge electric fan. They were bound for Los Angeles and a brother-in-law's dairy farm-"to find a good future for the children." A newsman asked Mrs. van der Dussen if such a future could not be found in Europe? The stout Dutch woman shrugged, moved her hand in an impatient gesture-how could she explain a self-evident fact...
...Ingram as a recalcitrant brother-in-law and Isabelle Cooley as Anna have the major parts, but there is only a fine line dividing the skill of the starring roles and supporting ones. Delineations of a philosophical bartender and a pseudo-sophisticated street-walker are especially well done. But the primary attribute of the play is that it can discuss a significant problem in an objective and straightforward manner, without destroying the inherent qualities that make it, above all, good theater...
Chiang Kai-shek sent word to Brother-in-Law Soong...
...Questions. Jordana replaced Franco's brother-in-law, Serrano Suñer, a fanatical Falangist, a few weeks before the North African invasion. It was a happy freak of fortune, says Sir Samuel, that Franco chose this time to oust his ambitious brother-in-law. Had Serrano Suñer remained in office, the invasion might have miscarried. The Gibraltar airfield could have been crippled "in less than a half hour." Gibraltar bay, which had been filling with ships for days, was almost as vulnerable. Jordana was "pro-Ally to the core," discreetly looked the other way, asked...
...Monte Alban. Hero of the occasion: Dr. Alphonso Caso, who was about to retire into politics, perhaps to be Mexico's Minister of Education. Dr. Caso, brother-in-law of mercurial Labor Leader Vicente Lombardo Toledano, symbolized an era coming to a close. Under his direction, the ceremonial center of the Mixtecs and Zapotecs at Monte Alban, near Oaxaca, had been excavated. Digging carefully into the 60 square kilometers of overgrown mounds, Dr. Caso's men unearthed a dazzling complex of subtly designed stone tombs and religious buildings. In many they found golden masks and necklaces, carvings...