Word: son-in-law
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...hard-working son-in-law...
Died. Major Henry Shaw Beukema, 29, son-in-law (since 1944) of General of the Army Omar N. Bradley, son of West Point's Geopolitician Colonel Herman Beukema; when his Thunderjet fighter crashed into the York River, near Williamsburg...
When Theodore Roosevelt was discussing the marriage of his daughter to Nicholas Longworth, he confided boastfully to a perplexed Kaiser Wilhelm that he and Nick had both belonged to the Porc. At that time, Roosevelt was not alone in considering membership an important qualification for a son-in-law. Boston mothers, on the prowl for young gentlemen eligible for debutante dances, turned to the clubs to provide them. And The Institute of 1770 even had ranking within itself: the first seventy or eighty elected to it from each class were termed Dickeys, from the name of a secret society D.K.E...
...Nixon and California's new Governor Goodwin Knight. The other Republican, John L. Collier, was the candidate of the opposing faction (followers of ex-Governor Earl Warren, now U.S. Chief Justice, and Senator William Knowland). The Democratic candidate was George Arnold, 32-year-old son of Trustbuster Thurman Arnold and a son-in-law of Columnist Drew Pearson...
...strong supporter of Harvard. My only brother, 1909, all three of my sons, 1932, '36 and '44 my son-in-law '28, and my grandson '52, are Harvard men. But in the case of Communists teaching at Harvard, Sen. McCarthy is right, and Harvard is then holly wrong. Wendell Furry has defied the United States Government and refused to answer questions on the ground that to do so would tend to incriminate him thereby proclaiming himself unfit to teach. How long would Harvard tolerate a criminal in its student body? Sincerely, Helen Lee Woodward West Orange, New York