Word: father-in-law
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...been clearer on one point, but what you do say lends weight to an idea about which I have long been wondering. Do not the higher salaries among the Ivy League graduates come primarily from the fact that a high percentage of them go into their father's business, their father-in-law's business, or into some other business open to them primarily through family contacts ? May not the group that does this (and inherits their parents' wealth) be large enough, and make enough money, to raise the general average...
...Mountain, where Dave had learned his skiing as a youngster. Their honeymoon included a trip West last summer, where Andy stayed in ski shape by heaving huge grain sacks, breaking a mare, and cooking chow for all hands at a Porcupine Gulch (Wyo.) ranch. Andy's admiring father-in-law, Laudy Lawrence, retired European manager for MGM, calls her a "regular hillbilly...
...Also onetime owner of the Washington Post and father-in-law of the late Evalyn Walsh McLean...
...building is named for the late Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who gave the funds for its construction and partial endowment...
...Newcastle, to dedicate a new engineering section at Kings College, the Duke of Edinburgh unfurled for the first time his own personal standard, recently approved by his father-in-law. Three feet long and two feet wide (impaled with his own arms and those of Elizabeth), the pennant includes a total of ten lions: six English, three Danish and one Scottish...