Word: daughter-in-law
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...fact that Brenton Root was the son of a respected Episcopal clergyman-Rev. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Root, rector of St. Simon's Church in Chicago, onetime dean of the Cathedral in Albuquerque, N. Mex. Dr. Root calmly announced he forgave his daughter-in-law for killing his son. Last week he publicly interpolated his feelings in a sermon on forgiveness. While his wife was visiting Daughter-in-law Daisy in the Memphis jail, Dr. Root mounted his pulpit, declared...
widow of Theodore Roosevelt, with a fractured hip (TIME, Nov. 25); Daughter-in-Law Mrs. Grace Lockwood Roosevelt, of appendicitis; Granddaughter Sarah Alden Derby, of "rundown condition" following an appendix operation last spring; all on the same floor of a Glen Cove, L. I., hospital...
...Majesty's subjects this revelation that the royal bride can and does recite passages from the Highway Act augured that Queen Mary has at last found the perfect royal daughter-in-law, recalled the late Prince Consort Albert whose ability to recite excerpts from State papers ancient and modern has been equaled by no member of the Royal Family since...
Absent Transvestite. In the Federal district court at Louisville a kidnapping trial began without the actual snatcher. To tne witness stand went rich young Alice Speed Stoll, daughter-in-law of a Louisville oilman, to tell how Thomas H. Robinson Jr. had abducted her from her suburban home in October 1934, held her captive in an Indianapolis apartment for the next six days while dickering for $50,000 ransom (TIME, Oct. 20, 1934). 'Napper Robinson's eccentricity is transvestitism. Since he habitually wears women's clothes, Government agents have not yet been able to pick...
...Died. Fannie Coddington Browning, 83, U. S.-born daughter-in-law of Poet Robert Browning; in London. She married Robert Wiedemann Barrett ("Pen") Browning in 1887, left him six years later...