Word: father-in-law
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...emboldened by the benign attitude of the British Lion, declared dissolved the union of Norway and Sweden (1814-1905) and elected as king of Norway, Carl of Denmark, who promptly took the favorite name of the long extinct Norwegian Royal House, Haakon. Sweden, pondering well the power of father-in-law Edward VII, made no serious attempt to block the secession of Norway. Thus Haakon has been called the "chief strategic asset of his people...
This Congressman Richard S. Aldrich hardly titillates the memory of the average man today. Yet he might well have gone to his brother-in-law and asked for $5,000 as a pension for Mrs. Marshall, his brother-in-law is John D. Rockefeller Jr. But his sister's husband and his sister's father-in-law, potent though they be, were not more noted than his father in the latter's day. For his father was Senator from Rhode Island, Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, one of the giants in the Senate two decades ago. Nelson W. Aldrich, who began life...
...death came about 3,300 years ago, after 17 years of life, eight of matrimony, three or four of sovereignty. In those days the throne of the Pharaohs was inherited by sons-in-law. Thus Saa-nekht, having married one daughter of Pharaoh Khu-n-Aten, succeeded his father-in-law, died, was succeeded by his brother-in-law, Tutankh-Amen, who had meanwhile married Khu-n-Aten's third daughter, Amkh-nes-pa-Aten...
...clock about 100 were admitted to the building, but the rest never got any further. An officer in full uniform wearing a colonel's insignia, jauntily swinging a bamboo cane and with a chest swelling beneath a row of ribbands, came up attended by his wife, sister, father-in-law. The crowd cheered for "Billy" Mitchell. He went into the building bowing to friends hither and yon. In the court room within were batteries of cameras, reporters, learned counsel, and a small fraction of the "public." Promptly at 10 a. m. a grizzled sergeant rose and called "Stand...
Governors appeared on the floor: Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, dressed in Prince Albert; Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, Governess of Wyoming, wearing mourning, came in with Senator Kendrick of her state, was applauded. She conversed with the venerable Mr. Warren, father-in-law of General Pershing, now dean of the Senate, also from Wyoming. Other Governors wandered in, most of them unknown to the galleries. Governor Ritchie of Maryland, strikingly handsome, stood out from the rest. Old Senators went around shaking hands with Governors, while new Senators assembled to be sworn...