Word: father-in-law
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...London, when drought shrank the Thames to a narrow stream, Lady Plimsoll painted a thin green line around the inside of her bathtub, six inches above the bottom. Like the original "Plimsoll line" which her late great father-in-law Samuel Plimsoll devised to mark the depth below which a ship must not be loaded, Lady Plimsoll's line decreed high water mark in her bathtub. By last week all over England, patriots were summoning painters to draw Plimsoll lines on their tubs...
...hanged his sweetheart and then buried her deep beneath the plowed topsoil of his farm? The latest achievement of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, British readers were reminded by the million last week, was his feat in persuading a jury to send Reginald Hicks to the gallows for holding his father-in-law's head in an oven with the gas turned on. Reginald Hicks insisted that his father-in-law turned on the gas and stuck his own head into the oven. But, as a result of the great sleuth's finespun deductions, Reginald Hicks was hanged...
...when it discovered that Mr. Mackay's daughter was serious about the songwriter who made no bones about his East Side background. Irving Berlin went quietly about his business, wrote "Always," the song which coincided with their engagement. If it were true that lately he helped his father-in-law to the tune of $1,000,000 Irving Berlin would be the last to admit it. But the two are reconciled. When time allows they have dinner together once a week. And Grandfather Mackay takes pride in the two Berlin children: Linda Louise, 2; and Mary Ellin...
...Loeb who retired one year after Otto Kahn, at 17, began his banking career in Germany as a stamp licker. There is the big white Georgian partners' room, heart of Kuhn, Loeb, where "people just roll in and roll out again." There Otto Kahn worked under his father-in-law, Partner Abraham Wolff. There he became a U. S. citizen during the War. There as Kuhn, Loeb's great "personality" he chatted with railroad tycoons, painters, writers, singers-all wanting help. And there last week, in the private dining room on the fourth floor, Death came to Otto...
...collaboration with Edward Sheldon (Bewitched} and Charles MacArthur (Salvation}. Like Yellow Jack, Dodsworth, which opened last fortnight with equally enthusiastic reviews and made Sidney Howard the most successful dramatist of the season, was an adaptation. At work last week on a novel about his father-like his father-in-law a musician-Playwright Howard took time out to write a preface for Yellow Jack when it is published next month. Excerpts...