Word: father-in-law
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There were Hiram Johnson and Ralston in the full bloom of candidacy. There was Borah, who led in the blind Senator, Gore of Oklahoma. There was Warren, father-in-law to General Pershing, last of the Civil War veterans, and Pat Harrison, the Democratic whip?all the others regular and progressive "of both parties," excepting only four, among them Mr. La Follette, who was still...
...Capital, watchers assumed that Mr. Roper had decided it was time for the McAdoo boom to come out in the open. Mr. McAdoo had himself intimated that he might soon deliver a comprehensive statement on national issues. But the situation was complicated by Mr. McAdoo's father-in-law, Woodrow Wilson. It is generally understood that if Mr. Wilson had merely to choose who would be the next President, he would select David F. Houston, who was Secretary of Agriculture and later Secretary of the Treasury in the Wilson Cabinet. At any rate, Mr. Wilson is understood to have...
...married to Joyce, patrician to the tips of her fine fingers. But he has other demands on his sympathy-he is half-Irish, one brother-in-law is an Irish revolutionary, later caught and executed, another is a German noble, his father is an extreme Tory M. P., who favors reprisals in Ireland, his father-in-law is an Earl perched on a dizzy pinnacle of aristocracy, his brother, a Black and Tan, is shot by a sniper. Furthermore, Bertram Pollard has an uncommonly soft heart. He can no more hate and despise the " mob" with whom he fought...
...addition to the nimble Mr. Woolsey, Tom Lewis, who played the part of Barry Darcy, the portly uncle and father-in-law, scored with the audience. His frequent references to the great drought, were funny and original, although the subject of his complaint has been fairly well exhausted as a source for stage humor. Miss Dolly Connolly, as Molly, Mr. Darcy's dark-haired niece, took a prominent part in the performance,--contributing to nearly all the singing and dancing. Her acting was magnetic, and the audience was glad to have her on the stage as much...
...will be remembered that when he was transferred to an overseas division, the University regiment marched in a body to his home on Mercer Circle and presented him with several gifts, among which were a saddle and bridle. His immediate family includes his wife, three children, and his father-in-law, Brigadier-General Eli D. Hoyle. Colonel Shannon was a graduate of West Point, 1902, and was 39 years...