Word: father-in-law
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...George moved up to the State Court of Appeals, then to the Georgia Supreme Court as an associate justice. He resigned in 1922, and went back to Vienna to handle the estate of his late father-in-law, hard-bitten old Joseph Heard, a cotton grower, undertaker, warehouseman, building contractor and mule trader, whose bouncing, irrepressible daughter Lucy had become George's wife in 1903. One lazy summer afternoon George was fishing on the Flint River near Vienna when he got word of the death of rabble-rousing Senator Tom Watson, bitter isolationist and onetime Populist Party candidate...
Died. Sir Stephen J. Pigott, 75, U.S.-born British marine engineer and father-in-law of Senator Estes Kefauver, knighted in 1939 for his work in designing the engines that power the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth; at Closeburn Castle, Dumfriesshire, Scotland...
Born. To Nancy Oakes, 31, daughter of the late Sir Harry Oakes and ex-wife of Count Alfred de Marigny, who was acquitted in 1943 of the murder of his father-in-law in Nassau, and Baron Ernst Lyssard von Hoyningen Huene, 25, of Oberammergau, Germany: their first child, a son; in Nassau, Bahama...
...other boys," said one of the Premier's old school friends, "was his infuriating air of superiority. He was small and thin, and his haughtiness constantly brought him beatings and cuffings from his mates." "Shigeru may not have the most appealing personality," agreed the Premier's father-in-law, "but he has backbone, and that's what counts...
Rorimer believes that the tapestry was probably commissioned by Charles VIII's father-in-law, the Emperor Maximilian of Austria, as a gift to the young King, who, at the age of 12, had married Maximilian's daughter, three-year-old Margaret. The tapestry was cut into three sections sometime before the middle of the 19th century, and the various parts found their separate ways to the U.S. The Metropolitan got the right section as a bequest in 1941; last year it traded the Walters Art Gallery another fine tapestry for the center section; the left part...