Word: father-in-law
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...city, would not have fallen in with the fast country-club set where she met her unresisted married seducer, Jim Carter. And Jim, if he had lived in the Old South, would have been a sportsman instead of a frustrated adman and then manager of his Yankee father-in-law's diaper factory. And particularly, in the Old South there would have been no Yankee manufacturer to corrupt the South's younger generation with show-off social vulgarity...
...girl; Moussa, a notorious Arab pickpocket, whom nobody understands except Captain Trolley; the mayor's katzenjammer son, whose snooping in Dr. Thumb's traveling bag is rewarded by a small mummified head which turns out to be that of the mayor's long-lost missionary father-in-law...
Born also of political hopes, the World-Herald had enjoyed a brighter financial history when Henry Doorly became its publisher-by-marriage when his father-in-law died in 1934. Spare, high-principled Senator Gilbert Monell Hitchcock was one of the group of bankers and politicians who founded the World in 1885. After its merger with the Herald in 1889 he slowly bought out his flagging partners and whipped banker-creditors who tried to dictate the paper's policy. Under Senator Hitchcock the World-Herald became an influential organ of liberal Democracy, with William Jennings Bryan its editor...
German-born, German-trained Chemist Kochs took over the little Victor plant in Chicago Heights after his father-in-law had acquired it in payment of a debt, incorporated it in 1902. Losing regularly at first, he persuaded Cornelius Vanderbilt, President John R. Hegemen of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and Banker William A. Read to "take a flyer" with $150,000. They never had cause to regret the move-business picked up in 1907, and with the War Victor left its competitors behind. In 1920 it expanded by building a second plant in West Nashville, near Tennessee's phosphate...
...ages of 17 and 20, young Sidney captivated royalty, diplomats, scholars; the only criticism voiced was that he drank too much water, ate too much fresh fruit. In Paris, as guest of Francis Walsingham (later head of England's unexampled secret service, and Philip's future father-in-law) Philip witnessed the slaughter of St. Bartholomew's Day, conceived for Spain and the Papacy the only ungentle attitude in his makeup...