Word: brother-in-law
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Titta Ruffo, famed Metropolitan Opera baritone: "I was violently attacked last week by L'Impero of Rome, a semi-official Fascist news organ. L'Impero recalled that the murdered millionaire socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti (TIME, June 23, 1924, et seq.) was my brother-in-law, and accused me of anti-Fascist leanings similar to his. Italians resident in the U. S. were called upon to boycott my performances and to treat me with violence...
...nationality. Yes, she liked the modern girl. No, she was no Socialist; she was a social reformer. Yes, the English are wonderful in a crisis. No, she would tell them nothing about the annexation of Canada; she knew nothing. Yes, she was going up to Maine with her brother-in-law, Charles Dana Gibson. No. . . . Yes. . . . No. . . . The U. S. public votes for its "Ma" Fergusons, its W. C. T. U. reformers, its crow-voiced, flat-heeled "careerists," then gazes sheepishly, enviously, abroad to this woman twice ennobled-once by Virginia birth, again by British marriage-awards her the respect...
Former Governor Warren T. McCray of Indiana, brother-in-law of George Ade (humorist), unsuccessful farmer, K. K. K. enthusiast, now lies sick in the Atlanta penitentiary, where he was sent two years ago for using the mails to defraud. In April, big Senator Watson, politically powerful, pleaded before President Coolidge for the convict's release; last week he tried again (bringing along the other Indiana Senator). But the convict's term of ten years, despite the convict's friends, remains unabbreviated...
From commandant of the Battle Fleet, Admiral Charles Frederick Hughes will be advanced to Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet, on Sept. 4, succeeding his brother-in-law, Admiral Samuel Shelburne
...Tschaikovski then - runs the story - fled to Bucharest, Roumanian capital, where she bore him a son. Tschaikovski was later shot by Bolshevist agents; and "Frau von Tschaikovski" declares that she placed the child in an orphan asylum near Bucharest when she was brought to Berlin by her brother-in-law...