Word: brother-in-law
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Died. John Ellis Martineau, 63, Federal Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas, onetime (1927-28) Governor of Arkansas, brother-in-law of Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson; of influenza, complicated by heart disease; in Little Rock. Last December he sentenced Paul Peacher after he was convicted of slave-keeping, in the first case ever tried under a 70-year-old anti-slavery statute (TIME...
...Lessing Rosenwald of Abingdon, Pa. now go there. In its long career Gunnery has had only three headmasters. Last week it was handed over by retiring William Hamilton Gibson to a fourth educator who can well preserve its austere tradition: Rev. Tertius van Dyke, Headmaster Gibson's brother-in-law, the pastor of Washington's Congregational Church, son of Princeton's late beloved little literary patriarch, Dr. Henry van Dyke...
...Park Avenue Presbyterian Church to quiet Washington after his marriage, in 1924, to Mary Elizabeth Cannon. In Washington the van Dykes have reared a girl and two boys. When Headmaster Gibson last year asked Tertius van Dyke to take over Gunnery while he went on a vacation, Brother-in-law van Dyke shouldered his duties ably. Upon deciding last week to become a schoolmaster for good, he remarked: "I desire to work in the purpose of the Gospel and I feel that education and religion are closely related...
...like a big-browed, jut-jawed Groucho Marx; but few people anywhere would recognize a picture of his wife. Kipling married a Vermont girl, Caroline Balestier, but readers of Something of Myself are led to infer that she could hardly be considered American. (Kipling does not mention his brother-in-law, Wolcott Balestier, who collaborated with him on the Naulahka, and with whom he quarreled.) The U. S. where he spent four years after his marriage, he mentions often, always in the same tone. "Reporters came from papers in Boston which I presume believed itself to be civilized and demanded...
...favorite brother ever since they both had to pose in bothersome robes and coronets as budding regalites (see cut), she greeted him as the English do when they are too overwhelmed with emotion to manage more than a shy triviality. Said Mary to Edward: "Well, you do look fit." The onetime King-Emperor, apparently on the verge of tears, could say nothing at first as he and the Princess Royal gripped hands, while Lord Harewood discreetly fell into conversation with photographers. By next day Edward VIII seemed in high spirits, showed his sister & brother-in-law assiduously through the miles...