Word: son-in-law
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...first scene, a woman slaps her ne'er-do-well son-in-law, who loses his balance and falls out the window of his Maine boathouse. The fatality, as it proves to be, is witnessed by the young man's wife and by a little old man who is hidden in a bunk at stage-left. The death is clearly an accident, but the little old man--Kilbride, of course--insinuates, "Wa-al, you slapped him, and he fell, and now he's dead....Police sometimes nasty about things like that y'know...
...Wyeth illustrations and descriptive paintings was on view. Neighbors from nearby Chadds Ford, where he had lived, came over to take a look and to remember their genial, hard-working friend. They figured his kids might carry on. Three of Wyeth's five children, along with son-in-law Peter Kurd, are artists; son Andrew (28) had already had five one-man shows in Manhattan...
...When Reither came home from parting with Minnow, he found his household just the way it always was. His sister, the Honorable Caroline von Wrbata-Treuenfels, was coldly examining a roast goose's wingbone through her lorgnette. Son Max Egon was at work on his great essay: Life, a Disease of Our Planet. Son-in-law Dr. Rankl, who looked like "a set of false teeth," was sipping coffee with whipped cream and reciting snatches of patriotic poetry to his wife. She dreamed of passion when not stuffing herself with lush pastry. Grandson Franz-Ferdinand was goggling...
Married. Elisabeth de Gaulle, 21, pretty, trained-nurse daughter of French President Charles de Gaulle; and Commandant (Major) Alain de Boissieu, 31; in Paris. Son-in-law De Boissieu, le grand Charlie's military aide, escaped from a German prison camp in 1940, campaigned in Africa and Normandy...
...Crawford H. Greenewalt, the greying, hawk-nosed director and chemist of du Pont (son-in-law of Irenee du Pont) who got the Hanford project in production...