Word: father-in-law
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David Merriwether Milton, Manhattan lawyer, made known that, like his father-in-law, John Davison Rockefeller Jr., he would go in for realty operating, would perch a luxurious $3,000,000 cooperative apartment house on a bluff overhanging the East River, at the foot of Beekman Place. Atop the building. Owner & Mrs. Milton will listen to tooting tugs. see the twinkling lights of Long Island City and Astoria, from a sumptuous penthouse...
...interested all the time in the way her brilliant acting makes credible the overexcited story of a woman whose principles and weak husband spoil life for her. She is a stenographer. Her husband is the son of a millionaire. When her father-in-law has broken up her marriage she is kept by another man. Later she engages in a contest of self-sacrifice with her former husband's new wife. The plot is full of "audience value," i. e., emotional sequences rising out of each other so rapidly as to eliminate the narration necessary in ordinary stories. Through...
...represented figurative or literal mountains of tea, rubber, coal, oil, banks, newspapers, steamships, flour mills, jute mills or coin of His Britannic Majesty's realm derived therefrom. This polygonal fortune had come to her from her father, old Sir David Yule, who had built it up from four mills which devolved upon him from his father-in-law, Andrew Yule, who first made Indian jute world-famed. It was the War's demand for sandbags which caused jute prices to soar and the Yule wealth to become fabulous. Much, however, of Miss Yule...
...Being an Ambassador," said the U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, in Washington last week, "is a snap compared to being the father-in-law of the world's best known bridegroom...
...father-in-law finally said: "Well, Mac, I'll have to admit with reluctance that you were right in taking the air." For a decade after that, however, "Mac" let two of his sons who were in the Army Air Corps during the War, do the flying for the family...