Word: brother-in-law
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...torture as a cure for disease, advise a poultice of live ants as a disease prevention. One chief gave Explorer Holdridge some vegetables from his garden. He explained that the vegetables were good because recently he had cast out all evil spells from his garden by killing his brother-in-law, a voodoo priest. Explorer Holdridge also saw a new mountain range, two uncharted rivers, a waterfall 260 ft. high...
...undertook a role apparently as strange as his others, but easily explainable. The role: aviation colyumist for the Newark Free Press. The explanation: Roger Kahn is an able flyer. And Publisher John Barry Ryan Jr., joint founder of the new Free Press (TIME, July 14) is his brother-in-law, husband of the former Margaret Dorothy Kahn...
Eastman Kodak Co. bought control of the interests in several color-photography processes developed over a period of 15 years by: Leopold Mannes, son of Violinist David Mannes, nephew of Conductor Walter Damrosch; and Leo Godowsky, son of Pianist Leopold Godowsky, brother-in-law of Composer George Gershwin. Inventor Mannes, Harvard-man, is a composer, teaches piano. Inventor Godowsky is a concert violinist, attended the University of California...
...family continually embroiled in lawsuits, defamed her. When she first heard the book was being written she had the Viennese censor scrutinize it; when it was published she obtained legal authority for its confiscation. Her reason for believing the book was detrimental to her: the author is a brother-in-law of a maid whom she dismissed from her home in Vienna...
...John Thompson Dorrance was chosen to be a director of Campbell Soup Co., filling one position left vacant by the recent death of her husband (TIME, Oct. 13). Chairman of the Board will be her brother-in-law, Dr. George Morris Dorrance...