Word: father-in-law
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...John Brooks Henderson Jr. had to produce an heir for her Senator father-in-law in order to receive a $600,000 trust fund. For several months she put padding inside her clothes. Then she adopted Trixie from an orphan asylum, collected the $600,000. The Senator died without being aware of the deception. In 1923, however, an aged family retainer grew wroth with Mrs. Wholean and told the secret to Mrs. Henderson Sr. He had witnessed the reception of the child in the Henderson Jr. home. Last week District of Columbia Supreme Court papers were produced to show that...
...Major-General Pershing's first inkling of overseas service came in a telegram from his father-in-law, the late Senator Warren of Wyoming, asking if he knew French. Son-in-law Pershing wired back the "comparatively accurate" response that he once knew and spoke the language and could easily "reacquire" it. Not for days after he reached Washington did it dawn on him that he was being made, not a divisional commander, but chief of the whole...
...listed in Who's Who in America, is listed in Britain's Who's Who. Charles Augustus Lindbergh's history is recounted as follows: "Enrolled in flying school, Lincoln, Neb., in 1922; flew alone from New York to Paris, 1927." Col. Lindbergh's father-in-law Dwight Whitney Morrow does not appear. Nicholas Murray Butler's paragraph occupies more space in the volume than that of any other man or woman, British or foreign...
Solid South is the story of how two Pittsburgh millionaires-father & son-pierce the Mason-Dixon line, win the hands of two aristocratic daughters-widow & child-of the Confederacy. Antagonistic to the Yankees' scheme is the ladies' father-in-law and grandfather, Major Bruce Follonsby (Richard Bennett). If the play is meant to satirize life in the South, or even the stage-idea of life in the South, it fails...
...Author. The Sassoons, rich, prominent Anglo-Jewish family (they are supposed to have originated in Bagdad) are said to resemble early Assyrian wall sculptures. Siegfried, 44, is son of Sir Edward Sassoon, Anglo-Indian merchant whose father-in-law was Baron Gustave de Rothschild. Siegfried's cousin Philip was Under-Secretary for Air. Tall, bony, loosely built, he has a big jaw, nose, ears, hands; speaks usually in a slow, troubled voice. After his country gentleman's education at Marlborough and The House (Christ Church, Oxford), he spent his time mostly hunting, playing cricket, tennis, music, printed a few poems...