Word: brother-in-law
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Unworn Crown. Pious Jugoslavs, shivering bareheaded in the chilling rain, prayed aloud in unison as the stately Orthodox service began in Belgrade Cathedral, pack-jammed with royalty, statesmen and the corps diplomatique. Weeping beside the Duke of Kent was Princess Marina. Her brother-in-law Prince Paul, Jugoslavia's pallid, scholarly Chief Regent, barely controlled his grief. On a high platform upon a great throne chair sat 11 year-old King Peter II, big-eyed, erect and at times somewhat puzzled. Below him lay his murdered father King Alexander I in a simple oak coffin...
...about the globe living a happy, though rather vacuous existence and gaining their daily champagne by virtue of Jerry's ability to sell hypothetical gold mines and other sleight of hand. Just when their accumulated hangovers and debts begin to overwhelm them Jerry receives a letter from his brother-in-law asking him for his brother-in-law's love for the child, the guardianship of Jerry's child by a former marriage. Thinking to profit by Jerry returns to America and plans to sell him the child. However, he abandons this idea when he meets the child (Shirley Temple...
General Johnson's ubiquitous assistant, Frances M. ("Robbie") Robinson, had been in Manhattan last week stitching an NRA label on an $800 blue fox scarf to signalize the codification of the fur industry when the story broke that her brother-in-law had a $6,800 NRA job in Washington. Brother-in-law's name was John Wilshear. He had been treasurer of a Brooklyn shoe company. When it shut down several months ago he went to Washington and into "training to take charge of the leather section of NRA." Rent with internal politics, NRA headquarters began to buzz with...
...lost. But they still had many weary months to wait. When Ex-Prisoner Kuncz finally got back to Hungary, "we got out of the train in Gyor and bought some horsemeat sausages, and I asked one of the station officials if he knew anything about my brother-in-law, who had lived in that town. He said he had died. That seemed natural...
...peddling dry groceries from door to door. He peddled for two years before he hit on a way of making his business different from any of the other hundreds of mobile stores weaving in & about Chicago. It was merely the hoary premium plan?with a twist. His brother-in-law thought it was a pretty good idea and they set up "Jewel Tea Co., Skiff & Ross, Proprietors." The idea: give housewives the premium first; let them collect the coupons later...