Word: father-in-law
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...hearts of the assembled clansmen by treading a Highland reel with an ancient gaffer in kilts and sporran, the oldest tenant of the Strathmore estates. The Earl of Strathmore bit his drooping mustache and regarded the celebration somewhat sourly. To reporters the King's Son's Father-in-Law made almost as gloomy an announcement as a man could on his wedding anniversary: "Taxation, local and imperial, absorbs 80 of every hundred pounds I receive and now comes the new land tax. I fear I may no longer be able to remain in the residence...
Northern Passage. With "no official starting point and no finish," Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh & wife set out upon a pleasure flight to the Orient. They said goodbyes at Washington, New York, and at the estate of Father-in-Law Morrow at North Haven, Me., where they left Baby Charles Augustus ("Eaglet") Jr. Then they turned their low-wing Lockheed-Sirius, with its gasoline-laden pontoons, north to Canada. The hop to Ottawa was simple, gave Co-Pilot Anne Morrow Lindbergh opportunity to practice radio communication with the Pan-American Airways base near New York. West of Ottawa the pair...
After winning the National championship, Doeg married, set to work on his father-in-law's Newark, N. J. Evening News, announced that he would probably play little tennis in 1931 except to defend his title at Forest Hills. Clifford Sutter last week was winning the Tri-State Tour- nament in Memphis, Tennessee. The other two, Shields and Wood, together with Henri Cochet; John Van Ryn; Jean Borotra, who airplaned back to Paris for business between matches; Bunny Austin, balloon-trousered British Davis Cup player; George Lyttleton Rogers, a big Irishman with a hooked nose; Jiro Satoh, the champion...
...takes a six-month residence to become a voter. Last week while "newcomers" were busy in court getting separated from their spouses, Reno's "oldtimers" went to the polls, re-elected Edwin Ewing Roberts, 61, as their Mayor for a third four-year term. Father-in-law of famed Baseballer Walter Perry ("Big Train") Johnson, and once (1910-19) a Republican Congressman, Mayor Roberts won 3,773 votes by his loud espousal of easy divorce, legalized gambling and free barrels of whiskey. For Howard Doyle, Reno's Chamber of Commerce president, 2,988 citizens, including a conservative reform...
About 25 years ago Cyrus Stephen Eaton's father-in-law introduced him to George Taylor Bishop, a Clevelander who had done well in utilities. Mr. Eaton was given a desk in the Bishop office. From that desk he rose to the great financial heights which made him one of the most powerful industrialists in the U. S. When he had to resign as chairman of Continental Shares, Inc. (TIME, May 4), his nephew, W. Russell Burwell, resigned as president. The new president is George Taylor Bishop, long a tutor, always a friend of Mr. Eaton...