Word: father-in-law
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...Zarubins will occupy 20 of the 32 rooms in the Embassy building, which was once the mansion of Ottawa's lumber and railroad heir, the late John Frederick Booth (father-in-law to Erik, Prince of Denmark). The U.S.S.R. bought the vast pile when Ottawa and Moscow re-established relations two years ago. To the huge reception rooms, socialite Ottawans flock for the capital's poshest receptions...
...onetime cake counter clerk, met her husband Luis, a chief petty officer, at the Trocadero dance hall in Sydney a year and a half ago. "He just asked me to dance and I kept dancing with him all night," she explained. Her destination: Humboldt, Neb. where her father-in-law is a contractor. She was much relieved about what her three sisters-in-law would be like after she met a "lovely" Nebraska girl who was working at the Western Union desk of San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel...
...times. Playwright Hellman has pitched a handful of lives into the swirling history of our age. Her ominous little Washington dinner party of today not only resolves a puzzling 22-year-old triangle story; it audits the conduct of an irresolute career diplomat, his retired liberal of a father-in-law, his bored wife who broke bread with fascist-minded bigwigs...
Alex's mistake, his caustic father-in-law (finely played by Dudley Digges) tells him, lay in his subscribing to the notion "that bad men are stupid and good men are smart." But the scornful old liberal, who knew better, himself behaved worse. He cynically abandoned his fighting newspaper, sat snorting in the shade...
...Vatican. But he let Ciano save face with a seat on the Fascist Grand Council, and it was there that Ciano pulled down his house of cards about his ears: when the Council voted to oust Mussolini last July, Count Galeazzo 's vote went against his father-in-law...