Word: brother-in-law
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...drawing room sat other kin of the late Mrs. Vanderbilt: Nephews Harold Stirling and William Kissam Vanderbilt and William Seward Webb; Brother-in-law Frederick K.; Sisters-in-law Emily (Mrs. Henry B. White), Edith (Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry, widow of George Vanderbilt), Lila (Mrs. William Seward Webb), and Florence (Mrs. Hamilton McK. Twombly); Nephew Erskine Gwynne; Grandsons Cornelius, George and William Henry Vanderbilt and Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney; Granddaughters Gladys and Sylvia Szechenyi, Barbara (Mrs. Barklie McKee Henry), Cathleen (Mrs. Lawrence Wise Lowman), Flora (Mrs. G. Macculloch Miller), Grace (Mrs. Henry Gassaway Davis III) and Cornelia (Mrs. Eugene B. Roberts...
...from Josef Stalin. But last week French citizens did not worry about these niceties. To them the Trotsky incident was just one more black mark against the fallen government of Camille Chautemps. The Chautemps Cabinet was in office during the bloody riots of Feb. 6; Camille Chautemps' brother-in-law has been charged with complicity in the murder of Judge Albert Prince (TIME, April 23); now it appeared that it was the Chautemps regime that granted Conspirator Trotsky permission to settle within 35 miles of Paris. Even French papers of the Right had difficulty blaming Conspirator Trotsky...
Judge Lescouvé testified that he had drawn up two reports on Sacha Stavisky's strange success in dodging trial for fraud for eight years. In the second of these reports Judge Lescouvé directly charged Chief Prosecutor Georges Pressard of the Seine, lean-faced brother-in-law of onetime Premier Camille Chautemps, with negligence, a report that forced Pressard's removal from office...
...married Josefa Bayeu, sister of an influential painter, who unobtrusively bore him 20 children (only one of whom reached maturity) and who as unobtrusively died when she was through. Shortly after his marriage, through his brother-in-law he got a commission to draw cartoons for tapestries. Instead of classical subjects, Goya chose contemporary incidents, then an innovation. The tapestries established his fame, his social position. Goya said he had only three masters: "Rembrandt, Velasquez and Nature." Be cause his work only superficially resembles the first two, critics have generally agreed that the last was his best teacher. No mere...
...bought suit and brown derby, his "projeck" a success. First-week audiences seemed immensely pleased when Henry outwitted his onetime white employer, sold for $10,000 an option on some land which had only cost him $1,000. Magniloquently, Henry gives his patient wife a thousand, his gambling brother-in-law another thousand, his son still another (no one in the cast had seemed fazed when it was announced that his son's little fiancee was pregnant). "And Henry," the darktown financier addresses himself, "hyeah's seven thousan...