Word: daughter-in-law
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Years ago John Dominis, a shipmaster who made a fortune in the Pacific trade, built himself a fine white colonial mansion in what is now the centre of Honolulu. His half-white son married Liliuokalani, last Hawaiian monarch. John Dominis' house became Iolani Palace and his daughter-in-law lived in it long after she was deposed. When she died, a great fat wahine, in 1917, the territorial Government bought Iolani Palace as a Governor's mansion. It still stands, enlarged but little changed. There on March 1, "Judge" Poindexter was sworn in as Governor by his friend Justice Banks...
...nothing to do. They were very lonely. Even to see each other at lengthy intervals they had to sneak off, take wearisome bus rides, sit shivering on park benches because they had no money, nowhere to go. When Father Cooper caught a chill and died because his daughter-in-law was too stingy to get a doctor, his old wife tried to take it well. She tried to mean it when she said: "At least he didn't die among strangers." With the old man out of the way, the family conclave decided that the best thing for their...
...Angeles. Even if he lands at Seattle I shall go around that way." Said Father Elliott, refusing to let newshawks take pictures of his child: "The less said about the baby the better." When Grandfather Roosevelt may see his fifth grandchild was uncertain.- He has not yet seen Daughter-in-law Ruth. . In Boston newspapers appeared notice of the dissolution of a copartnership, whose members-James Roosevelt, the President's eldest son, Douglas Lawson and John A. Sargent-did business as general life insurance agents. At the time of the announcement Son James was in Cleveland with his wife...
Fortnight ago Mrs. Barron Gift Collier Jr., daughter-in-law of Car-Card Tycoon Collier, answered a telephone call in her Manhattan home, heard a timid voice ask $200 for the return of some stolen letters. Quick-thinking Mrs. Collier demurred, arranged a second telephone talk, then informed police. When a messenger called, Mrs. Collier gave him a bundle of paper instead of $200, later convinced her blackmailer that he had been bilked by his own messenger. Last week she dragged out to ten minutes her sixth telephone conversation with him, was relieved to hear him suddenly plead...
...citizen had been forced to give up his property. The inquiry was shuffled from the State to the Navy Department where Secretary Swanson explained that under a law passed in 1918. no foreigners may own real estate in Guam. The Japanese had just transferred his property to his daughter-in-law, a U. S. citizen, and now everybody was happy. ¶ Foreign Minister Hirota next turned his attention to Brazil. Japanese emigrants have been flocking to Brazil in late years. More than 150,000 of them are settled there on little farms, growing rice and mulberry trees, tapping rubber, raising...