Word: son-in-law
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Meanwhile, in Oklahoma, Sears's son-in-law David Busby, a local Democratic politico, proposed Sears's name to Democratic Senator Mike Monroney. Monroney's endorsement helped make up Jackson's mind in Sears's favor...
Dissenting Voice. A fortnight ago, Philip Graham, 38, Post publisher and president and Meyer's son-in-law, got a mysterious phone call from a Trib vice president, who said guardedly: "There's a point to our meeting. It's brand-new to me." Phil Graham went out hastily to the airport to meet his father-in-law, returning from a Jamaica vacation, immediately started a series of meetings to buy the paper. Meyer insisted from the beginning that the negotiations be kept a complete secret and that there be no haggling over the price. He offered...
...State Public Service Commissioner Benjamin Feinberg whose family collected dividends on stock held in his son-in-law's name. Purchase price, paid out of dividends: $2,100. Present worth...
...novelists [James Joyce], the grandson of one of the greatest modern painters [Henri Matisse], and the great, "great, great, great, and ad infinitum grandson of God [i.e., the son of the Aga Khan]." But the days of ancestor worship are more or less over, and in point of prestige, the Harvard clubman has become the vanishing American. Once, Theodore Roosevelt, 1880, could happily blurt to the Kaiser that his son-in-law was Porcellian ("A mighty satisfactory thing to be in the Pore"). In 1954, such fathers-in-law are rare...
...enlightenment. Fletcher kept at it. "All honorable members of this House have the greatest admiration and affection for the Prime Minister . . . Can we be left in suspense?" Beaming, Sir Winston broke in to say, "I am sorry I did not bring my hearing aid," as he dispatched his son-in-law, M.P. Christopher Soames, to get the slender, white, lily-shaped trumpet Sir Winston has substituted for the earplug he first used.-"I don't want to miss anything," he confided in a loud aside. Fletcher tried again. Churchill, his trumpet to his ear, sat back smiling benignly...