Word: brother-in-law
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Salt herrings and blue blood account for Norway's choice as umpire. The good value she gives in selling fish to the Soviet monopoly has made her sturdy friends at Moscow; and her tall, vigorous King Haakon VII is the only living brother-in-law of Britain's frail, gallant George V. Naturally the new British Labor Government thought first of Neighbor Norway when it decided to make conciliatory overtures to Russia through some honest friendly little state...
...farm near Tecumseh, 40 miles from Oklahoma City, lived James Harris. With him one day last week was his brother-in-law, Oscar Lowery. Both under 40, they had been in the Army during the War. Suddenly they looked up to see four men, all armed, coming across the field to the house. . . . When the four men left, Harris and Lowery were dying and the Treasury Department in Washington had another dry shooting on its hands...
...Angell Norris, niece of the late Mr. Gates, who received most of the Gates estate and controls some $80,000,000 (Texas Oil Co.) wants it built on the East bank of the Fox River, where she owns a community house, a cinema theatre. But E. J. Baker, brother-in-law of the late Mr. Gates, who inherited several other millions of the Gates estate, owns another community house, another theatre and a skyscraper hotel on the West bank. Last week the East-West controversy was intense, had split the entire town. Wash ington had to be consulted...
...live white cat which pawed the footlights during the first act. So charming was the animal that the audience all but forgot how Nancy Lane's adopted children, and their sudden $750,000 legacy, were about to be filched from her by her wily, citified sister and brother-in-law. Later on, when the cat had slunk away, the audience found nothing to divert it from the incredibly hoary spectacle of the two small, extremely stagey children choosing to remain with kind, gentle Nancy. Not even this situation satisfied Playwright Carl Henkle's taste for the archaic...
Married. Constance Talmadge, cinemactress; and Townsend Netcher, Chicago merchant; at the home of the bride's brother-in-law, Cinemacomedian Buster Keaton, in Hollywood...