Word: father-in-law
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...Stoic. With the financial backing of Felix's father-in-law Gratianus, a young tribune named Marcus Julius Naso hoisted his standard in Britain and took the title of Roman Emperor. Title, of course, was not possession, but it was nice for a start, and Honorius was too far away to dispute it. But when the new "emperor" refused to play ball with Gratianus, the old merchant persuaded Maria to skewer him while...
...stepped into the middle of it. Back home in St. Chamond, a small town (pop. 14,500) which prides itself on being the shoelace capital of France, Antoine Pinay had made his small tannery (50 employees) bigger and more profitable than when he inherited it from his father-in-law. There was no reason, he confided to an intimate, why a man could not run France the way he runs a business...
Lady Wonder, a 27-year-old mare, can't talk a word. By pushing rubber disks with her nose, however, she can make letters pop into view on a special alphabetical board. Dewing asked her to tell him his father-in-law's first name. She tapped out: MARION, the correct answer. Dewing was happily astounded. But it wasn't until he got home that he realized he had overlooked a great opportunity...
...seems to work. Nobody who has given his case history to Kinsey is likely to forget the experience. His own family has contributed; he took his daughter Joan's sex history when she was in high school, and after she married, her husband offered his to his father-in-law. The questioning may take from 1½ to 3½ hours, and penetrates every aspect of the subject's sexual life, including details that seem utterly outlandish even to highly sophisticated people...
...President & Director Ralph Stolkin and Director Abraham Koolish, his father-in-law, who have frequently tangled with the Federal Trade Commission and Better Business Bureau because of their punchboard promotions, mail-order life insurance and other past activities (TIME, Oct. 27). ¶Director William Gorman, the board representative of Oilman Ray Ryan, another member of the Stolkin-Koolish syndicate which bought control of RKO a month ago. Ryan's name had cropped up in the Kefauver hearings when it developed that he and Racketeer Frank Costello had an interest in the same oil lease. ¶Sidney Korshak, a Chicago...