Word: brother-in-law
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...amazing fluke to attend his own solemn Buddhist funeral and admire the hundreds of wreaths prominent persons had sent to be piled around his coffin was Admiral Keisuke Okada (TIME, March 9). Japanese Army youngsters thought they were killing Premier Okada when they were actually killing his brother-in-law, a Japanese Samurai who bravely pretended to be the Premier...
...Japanese of medium height, each with heavily wrinkled face, small clipped white mustache and nearly bald head, who went to sleep on wooden pillows in the Premier's Official Residence, one was Premier Admiral Keisuke Okada and the other was his brother-in-law, Colonel Denzo Matsuo...
...simple Buddhist funeral was next held for "Premier Okada," who ventured out and actually attended it, masquerading as his brother-in-law, "Colonel Matsuo." The corpse was reverently interred, and the only thing which might have given the show away was that the Emperor, who by this time knew the amazing truth, did not send the customary condolences and imperial presents for the Dead. This omission went unnoticed...
Died. William Horace de Vere ("Old King Cole") Cole, 53, Great Britain's No. 1 practical joker, brother-in-law of Chancellor of the Exchequer Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain; in Honfleur, France. Most famous of his 95 pranks were the results of skillful impersonation: 1) when a student at Cambridge, he posed as the Sultan of Zanzibar, had dignitaries escort him through the University, give him a champagne dinner; 2) in 1908, as a well-known Indian potentate, he asked to see the Dreadnaught, newest of battleships, then surrounded in official secrecy. The naval officials put on full regalia...
...abandoned their siege and Lindbergh news in the British Press had dwindled to a trickle. Only U. S. correspondents were still prowling about when Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh bundled Jon out the hotel servants' entrance and into a waiting limousine, sped off with Mrs. Lindbergh's brother-in-law. Aubrey Neil Morgan, toward the home of his father near Cardiff, Wales. A few newshawks gave chase in a taxicab, soon lost the trail. Speeding to Cardiff by train, they found all entrances to the Morgan estate guarded, all servants pledged to silence...