Word: father-in-law
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MINICK?Observant comedy of lower middle-class existence and what happens when father-in-law arrives for an endless visit...
There was Wadsworth of New York, bald and businesslike, tall and efficient, getting the bills of the Military Affairs Committee through in proper order. There was the venerable Warren of Wyoming, father-in-law of General Pershing, quietly, politely, seeing to the Appropriation Bills. Back of Warren sat Borah, silent mostly, but now and then rising to express in even tones few well-directed arguments. Further to the side, but coming forward when he spoke, was Brookhart, the singularly soft-voiced insurgent from Iowa, striving in unequal battle with the Heflins and the Caraways, badgering the so-called farm bloc...
...Foley. Foley was a son-in-law of Murphy- had married the Tammany boss's adopted daughter. He had been in both Houses of the State Legislature of New York. He had a good job on the bench as Surrogate. He was not anxious to succeed his father-in-law. Mr. Foley was not anxious to be boss of Tammany, but his wife, who had been the daughter of a Tammany boss, was determined not to be wife of a Tammany boss. She protested vigorously. Tammany also protested-that it needed Foley. Foley yielded, not to the daughter...
...Secretary both let it be known that they had heard of young Wood's speculations, had informed General Wood of the fact, and that the speculations had been stopped. They also affirmed that they regarded such heavy speculation by Army officers as very bad policy. Henry B. Thompson, father-in-law of Lieutenant Wood, hurried down to Washington on an unknown errand...
...casket itself will probably not be opened this year, nor will two other chambers crammed with rare objects. It is quite probable that the tomb may be found to contain the mummies of two Egyptian kings, for the outer door has two cartouches. Khu-n-aten, Tut's father-in-law, may have held the throne jointly and have been buried with him. The chief problem of the investigators is to keep the material reasonably intact. The golden screen is in momentary danger of crumbling to dust. It has to be reinforced with waxed linen, which puts a dingy gloom...