Word: brother-in-law
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...grateful were the relatives for Lance's help that LaBelle and Brother-in-Law Claude in April 1974 refurbished a cottage known as Eagle's Nest on the Lance farm as a gift to Bert. To pay for the work, Claude wrote $40,000 in checks on his already overdrawn Calhoun checking account...
...from earlier marriages and four grandchildren. Carloads of theater friends and Kirkland's fellow writers arrived regularly from New York for extended house parties. Amid all the drinking and countryside romping, Gelsey stood out as the poker-faced toddler. "Her seriousness was always a source of kidding," says Brother-in-Law Don Bevan. "But she would never encourage it. She would never give the adults satisfaction. You could never get her to sit on your lap and be cuddly...
JIMMY BUFFETT'S GONE for the good life, sailing the islands, boiled shrimp and cold beer, married to Jane Slagsvol whom he's loved for five years, with Tom McGuane for a brother-in-law and what all. Son of a Son will do no damage to his credit rating--it's a sure AM smash, and you're gonna hear it wafting from the dorm windows come warm weather...
...payment itself was legal and no secret; Textron openly recorded it on the books. But Proxmire and the committee staff claimed to have evidence that Air Taxi was secretly partially owned by General Mohammed Khatemi, former head of the Iranian air force and the Shah's brother-in-law. The suspicion was that the payment was actually a bribe to Khatemi to get him to approve the sale...
...city apartment, then decides to take up farming again. The normally equable Fossey becomes a raging hysteric whenever she encounters a man who she thinks is selling poisonously nonorganic food to her fellow citizens. Serres, convinced that a friend is being driven to suicide by a brother-in-law's financial misdealings, sets out to beat some sense into the miscreant. Naturally he sets upon the wrong man. But no matter. His friend pulls back from self-destruction, but later goes ahead and kills himself anyway...