Word: son-in-law
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Chess & Cape. Still slender and erect, Gide has a leathery brown skin, sharp eyes and decisive gestures. His rambling Left-Bank apartment is shared with stout, 82-year-old writer Maria Van Rysselberghe, her daughter and son-in-law, Newspaperman Pierre Herbart. Gide's daughter, Catherine, now in her 20s, lives near Paris with her husband and two children...
Walter WincheH's son-in-law, Bostonian William Lawless, son of a retired streetcar motorman, had his marriage to daughter Waldo annulled after nearly three years of no-marriage...
...Lobby. The watercolor copies shown at Colorado Springs were collected by the late John Frederick Huckel, son-in-law of Fred Harvey, the railroad restaurant man. Huckel got interested in sand paintings 26 years ago, when he was looking for an Indian motif to decorate a Harvey hotel lobby in Gallup, N.Mex. He asked a Navajo medicine man named Miguelito to put some on paper for him. Miguelito was hesitant, but after trying one and coming to no harm from the Powers, he and his fellow medicine men painted more...
...faculty and their qualifications. He advertised for new faculty members, got hundreds of letters, signed on 13 Harvard Ph.Ds. When the Board of Regents tried to hand-pick a dean for the new law school, Wernette began investigating him, too. Nominee Victor E. Kleven was the son-in-law of wealthy Sheep Rancher Jose Ortiz y Pino, who controls a lot of Spanish votes. But Wernette found that Kleven had never received several of the university degrees he claimed, had resigned from the California bar in the face of disciplinary action, and had never been admitted to the New Mexico...
Meanwhile, at several London stores, knowing purchasers of wedding gifts for Elizabeth had asked to have them monogrammed "E.E." Knowledgeable gossips immediately concluded that the Royal Family had decided on Edinburgh as a suitable dukedom for their son-in-law. More excitable gossips were aghast at a story that Lord Inverchapel, Britain's Ambassador to the U.S., had ordered from a Hollywood firm six pairs of Nylon stockings with clocks of seed pearls as his present to the Princess. In Washington the pained British Embassy promptly scotched that story...