Word: brother-in-law
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Nose Arc. In Birmingham, England, curve-beaked William Phillips, no money-worshiper, forfeited ?100 by refusing to meet a condition in his brother-in-law's will. The condition: that he have his nose straightened. Observed Phillips of his neb: "I am not ashamed...
...From his Republican father, U.S. Senator (1917-23) Howard Sutherland of West Virginia, Dick Sutherland even acquired a smattering of politics. He redesigned the Army-Navy Country Club course in Washington, won the Army golf championship. Once in a service baseball game he brought in a ringer: his brother-in-law, Bucky Harris, manager of the Washington Senators...
Thin, nervous, ambitious Don Ramón Serrano Suñer found the road to success was comparatively easy. While his fat-bottomed brother-in-law, Generalissimo Francisco Franco, was crushing Spanish Loyalists, Serrano skulked behind the lines, building up the Falange Espanola Tradicionalista. As head Falangista, Serrano controlled Spain's sole political party with a claimed membership of some 2,500,000. As head of the Ministry of Press and Propaganda he controlled what all Spaniards (supposedly) read and thought. As Minister of the Interior he controlled what they ate and when they went to prison. When...
...book, grew up and lived there until one day in 1941 when she stepped out to drown herself in the River Ouse. Her father's first wife was Thackeray's daughter. Her father was Essayist Leslie Stephen. Her husband was Essayist Leonard Woolf. Her brother-in-law was Art Critic Clive Bell. She educated herself in her father's vanguard-Victorian library, honed her fine wits against the most delicately abrasive minds in Edwardian and Georgian London. Her first novels, The Voyage Out and Night And Day, were a blotted watercolor of social comedy in Jane Austen...
...hair freshly trimmed, his blue business suit unwrinkled for the occasion. With him was the Rev. Russell J. Clinchy. In a hall the orchestra began the Lohengrin wedding march, dramatically stopped after the first four chords. Quick-smiling Mrs. Louise Macy entered on the arm of her brother-in-law, Navy Lieutenant Nicholas Ludington. She wore a simple deep-blue frock, with a matching halo hat that trailed a dark, waist-length veil. Her bouquet was purple orchids and delphiniums...