Word: father-in-law
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JOURNEY TO THE WEST-Darwin L. Teilhet-Doubleday, Doran ($2.75). Picaresque, 593-page novel about a high-pressure, radical Manhattan adman, stranded in Seattle, who gets entangled with quacks, radical slickers and adventuresses, in a gory, last-scene fight saves his soul and his future father-in-law's brewery...
...sister-in-law while he himself queried Mrs. Whitney. Then Prosecutor Dewey suddenly snatched Dick Whitney from under Lawyer Ambrose V. McCall's astounded nose with an indictment charging that Richard Whitney had appropriated another $105,000 in securities from the trust fund left by his father-in-law to Mrs. Whitney and her sister (Harvard University and St. Paul's School are residuary legatees). Richard Whitney was co-trustee of this fund. According to Mr. Dewey, in 1932, 1937 and 1938 Dick Whitney hypothecated its securities for loans...
Four copies of the marriage contract were signed, a white flag went up on the palace as token that the bridegroom had shaken hands with his father-in-law, first of 101 guns boomed out. Waiters rushed to the distinguished guests with trays of rose water and honey. All but the two officiating sheiks received solid gold candy boxes as wedding souvenirs. The two sheiks each got a Cashmere shawl...
...from Brussels traveling third class and carrying a small satchel as if going only for a short trip, would arrive at a country station in southeastern Sweden to be met by nobody and walk off with his satchel up to the rambling country house of his prospective Swedish father-in-law. In the nine years of Astrid's married life she gave Belgium three royal children: Princess Josephine Charlotte, now 10; Crown Prince Baudouin, 7; and Prince Albert, 3. Significant of the deep bond known to unite Astrid and Leopold was the insistence of the palace chamberlain on talking...
Families are disrupted for many reasons, but rarely do man and wife separate because of a father-in-law's politics. Ethiopians, however, are different, and last week from his self-exile in Jerusalem the thin-faced, kinky-haired son of Haile Selassie, Crown Prince Asfa Wassan, wrote to Patriarch Amba Yoannes XIX of the Coptic Church, in Cairo, petitioning this venerable prelate for a divorce from Princess Holata-Israel, daughter of his father's most powerful chieftain, Ras Seyoum, who capitulated to the Italian invaders during their campaign...