Word: brother-in-law
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...blustering day two years ago David Warshauer, 31, Brooklyn truckman, and his brother-in-law, Irving Tuchyner, set out from Oceanside. L. I. in a 16-ft. motorboat, headed for Sheepshead Bay. The wind swept them off their course, far out to sea. Their gasoline gave out, they drifted for five days without food or water. On the sixth day, according to Warshauer, they sighted the S. S. Conte Biancamano, crack passenger liner of the Lloyd Sabaudo Line. When the steamer came within hailing distance, the castaways waved distress signals, shouted for help. Passengers and crew waved back, they said...
...budget of Finance Minister Dr. T. V. Soong-a Chinese marvel because it balanced last year for the first time in the history of the Republic (TIME. Jan. 2)- teetered as the Government admitted a $10,000,000 current deficit and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek demanded of his brother-in-law, Dr. Soong, an additional $18,000,000 to pay his troops...
...same time got the two babes confused, could not tell which was which: Result: the mother did not know whether she was nursing her son or her grandson, the daughter did not know if she was nursing her son or her brother, her husband feared he had become the father of his brother-in-law...
...When a thing is not regular, Mr. Cohan does not want to have anything to do with it. In 1919, recalling the White Rats, he did not think that the newly organized Actors' Equity was regular. When Equity won its strike, Cohan dissolved his partnership with his brother-in-law, vowing he was through with the theatre. He was through with it three weeks...
Died, Robert C. Reid, 50, San Francisco businessman, brother-in-law of Governor James Rolph Jr. of California; when he leaped 14 stories from San Francisco's Balfour Building. He left a note: "I have felt my brain deteriorating...