Word: father-in-law
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...nervous collapse suffered in a theatre; Prince Kemaleddine Hussein of Egypt, explorer and big game hunter, in the American Hospital, Cairo, following amputation of a leg; Morris Gest, theatrical producer, in Jamesburg, N. J., of a nervous collapse partially induced by grief over the death of his father-in-law, David Belasco; Cinemactor Tom Mix in Hollywood, of peritonitis following operation upon a ruptured appendix; Premier Ismet Pasha of Turkey, in Istanbul, of injuries suffered in an automobile crash ; Yale Footballer Albie Booth, in New Haven, of pleurisy; William Reynolds, 18, son of Richard Samuel Reynolds, onetime tobacco tycoon...
Died. Patrick Francis Murphy, 72, president of Mark Cross Co. (leather goods), father-in-law of Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey (British journalist, cousin to Author Lytton Strachey) ; famed after-dinner speaker; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Tall, elegantly dressed, Speaker Murphy was featured at dinners of The Lambs and Manhattan Clubs, at July 4 meetings of U. S. residents in Paris and London. Some Murphyisms...
...handed the gunny sack to his visitor, declared that Mr. Leavitt was "a victim of circumstances." The President's sister, back from her club meeting in Hollywood, said the same thing about her husband. Brother-in-Law Leavitt also won sympathetic support from a famed father-in-law. Santa Monica's Chief of Police Clarence Webb, whose daughter Fay is the wife of Crooner Rudy Vallee, declared: "I don't believe Leavitt's a bootlegger. I believe his story. But the arrest was legitimate and I'll stand squarely behind...
...jumped the Earl of Coventry, rushed to his father-in-law's cell and acquainted Lord Kylsant with the failure of his appeal. Lady Kylsant arrived sobbing. She and the huge man who had been called "Napoleon of the Seas" when he dominated the White Star, Royal Mail and numerous other lines (TIME, Feb. 23) had a last embrace. Then Lord Kylsant said to two warders who were hovering nearby, "My good men, I am ready to go with...
Married. Eleanor Painter, soprano, divorced wife of Tenor Louis Graveure; and Charles Henry Strong, Cleveland department store manager, father-in-law of Newton Diehl Baker III; in Manhattan...