Word: brother-in-law
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Killed. Anthony M. Ruffu Jr., 54, Mayor of Atlantic City, N. J., recently acquitted on four of 14 indictments that charged him with shady insurance deals involving municipal properties, connivance with keepers of bordellos (TIME, Feb. 24) ; with a brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Wiley, and a cousin, Mrs. Margaret Siracusa; when an automobile in which they were riding was struck by a railroad train at Absecon, N. J. He was shortly to have been tried on the remaining ten counts...
...with frustration and despair. Nobody gets what he wants in Uncle Vanya. Michael Astrov, acted by Osgood Perkins (late editor of the Chicago Herald & Examiner in The Front Page), distinctly wants Lillian Gish, the second wife of an aged, selfish pedagog. With admirable restraint, her husband's brother-in-law, "Uncle Vanya" (Walter Connolly), also pursues Miss Gish as she floats about the stage attired in the costume of a pastel Gibson Girl. And although both Miss Gish and her step-daughter Sonia love Dr. Astrov, no entente more cordial than a handclasp is ever consummated...
...Attorney General Smith's brother-in-law, Percy Walker, a Topeka druggist, handles Dr. Brinkley's code prescriptions, according to the Topeka correspondent of the Kansas City Journal Post...
...stormy local journalism, Editor Birdsall had certainly feared nothing. A few years after he bought the Sentinel (1895), he and his in-laws shot it out with the Kelly boys from Benton, Miss., because of an article which he had printed. In that affray he lost a brother-in-law, D. D. Dorsey. T. A. Kelly was also killed. Governor James Kimble Vardaman had to send troops to protect the jail that lodged Editor Birdsall. Now that he was dead, feud-wise Yazoo City talked it over quietly on Main Street, waited to see who would be next to fall...
Although he is not so lavish a charitarian as was Brother-in-Law Bok, he is interested in the Y.M C A. During the War he served as a "Y" secretary in France. He owes allegiance to no church or college...