Word: brother-in-law
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...remarkable guy in more ways than one--he is remarkable for himself and remarkable for his relatives. His sister recently married his father-in-law, so that makes her his mother-in-law and his father-in-law is his brother-in-law. His wife is his sister's daughter now-is other words, his wife is his niece...
...Waller away from bars is a difficult feat. His capacity for both food & drink is vast. A Waller breakfast may include six pork chops. It is when he is seated at the piano that he most relishes a steady supply of gin. When his right-hand man, brother-in-law Louis Rutherford, enters with a tray of glasses, Tom will cry, "Ah, here's the man with the dream wagon! I want it to hit me around my edges and get to every pound...
...Henry Wallace still turns out at 6 o'clock to get in a few sets of tennis. On the courts of Washington's Wardman Park Hotel, he plays (lefthanded) a hard-plugging but ungraceful game with his sister or brother-in-law, Swiss Minister Charles Brugmann, occasionally matches strokes with other grade B-minus players like Nelson Rockefeller, Under Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal or Justice Hugo Black...
...completely all details of the many struggles which took place in the early hours of the "February 26 Incident," Grew has been able to confirm several stories of great heroims on the part of the victims and their associates. The Prime Minister's life was saved by his brother-in-law, who sacrificed himself with characteristic disregard for personal safety, while the 20 year old grandaughter of Count Makino prevented his death at the hands of a group of soldiers...
...campaign against the northern warlords in 1926. He has been Chief of Staff ever since. Ferociously antiCommunist, with several pet hates in his own Army, he holds all the strings and politically fears nothing. He works closely with Dr. H. H. Kung, 62, who controls Civil Administration. Brother-in-law of the Gissimo, "Daddy" Kung has for many years controlled Government finances, and is a great believer in printed currency. As Vice President of the Executive Yuan (Chiang is nominally President) he keeps his finger on all civil government...