Word: brother-in-law
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...anyone other than my wife's brother or my sister's husband be my brother-in-law? It has recently been claimed by an acquaintance that the second marriage also forms "in-laws"; for instance, that my wife's sister's husband is my brother-in-law...
From Fox Film Corp. last week resigned Courtland Smith, brother-in-law of Arthur Brisbane, founder and manager of Fox Movietone News, responsible for Manhattan's newsreel theatre, the Embassy. Called by Fox-President Harley L. Clarke "one of the outstanding figures in the motion picture industry" Cineman Smith will become president of Translux Movies Corp., two-weeks old organization...
Rumania's Minister to Jugoslavia made fervent protest in Belgrade last week against a Jugo-Slav operetta, His Majesty in a Bathing Suit, which, said he, was an obvious caricature of the love affairs of King Carol II. King Carol's spectacled brother-in-law. Dictator-King Alexander, ordered the offending scenes censored...
...next-best-looking, who gently handed him on to the plain Augusta. In pity for Augusta, who adored him, he married her. Their marriage turned out strangely well, though Zeno loved his wife most when he was with his mistress. When he went into business with his brother-in-law they lost half their capital the first year. But Zeno. who could do nothing from the right motive, got the bad habit of work, found he could not keep himself away from the office. Eventually he dropped his psychoanalytic treatment because business had cured...
...whom Mr. Crane left his business. Of these Richard Teller Crane Jr. is present president of the company. Of him as of his father it is said that he would rather visit a Crane Co. shop than attend a theatre. He never flies although his wife's brother-in-law is famed flying Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson. In his huge Lake Shore Drive home where last week he entertained Crane Co. employes there are no modern Crane Co. bathrooms. Richard Jr. has but one son Cornelius, recently elected a director of the company. He has never, however, worked therein...