Word: brother-in-law
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...been digging. When he heard that an albino was supposed to be a good divining-rod he went and roped one. After digging-hours his children and children-in-law found plenty of trouble to keep themselves busy. Darling Jill was most promiscuous: she seduced her brother-in-law Will and the albino, between whiles teased her potbellied suitor Pluto nearly frantic. Will and Buck's quarrel over Buck's wife, Griselda. was settled when company police shot Will as a labor agitator. Buck soothed his itching trigger-finger when another brother came after Griselda; then he went...
Married. Richard Joshua Reynolds Jr., 26, Camel cigaret scion, brother-in-law of Elsbeth ("Libby") Holman Reynolds; and one Elizabeth McCaw Dillard, 24, daughter of a Winston-Salem (N. C.) bridge contractor; in Winston-Salem...
Died. Daniel Edward Garrett, 63, eight-time Congressman from Texas (Democrat), member of the potent House Rules Committee; of heart disease; in Washington, D. C. A brother-in-law is Jesse Holman Jones, Reconstruction Finance Corp. director, Houston tycoon...
...have read it, my copy goes into the Mess anteroom where it is read and enjoyed by the Officers of the Regiment from the colonel, who is notorious for "sitting on it," down to the newest subaltern. After that it goes either to my brother, a tea planter in Assam, or to a brother-in-law serving, at present, on the N. W. Frontier of India, or perhaps to a friend in England, so that it is never wasted...
...should not outlaw Communism in Germany. We can deal with those people better when they are openly organized." In Winnipeg, Canada, buxom Mrs. H. von Schleicher delights to talk about "my brother-in-law" the new Chancellor. "He is very funny and very witty, with a charming personality!" she bubbled recently. "But he believes in biding his time. He wants to see what others will do first. Kurt has always been like that...