Word: son-in-law
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...Behind this loud resistance was Belgian loud resentment because Leopold had: 1) surrendered to Germany in 1940 instead of continuing the war in exile; 2) married a commoner, comely Mademoiselle Marie-Lelia Baels, while most of his subjects were suffering under the German occupation; 3) thereby become the son-in-law of a rich Belgian industrialist about to face a charge of collaboration with the enemy. There was no expressed opposition to the King's eldest son, Prince Baudouin, 14, whom Leopold's younger brother, Prince Regent Charles, was training for the pleasures of kingship...
Belgium's northern neighbor was also royally expectant last week. If reports from The Netherlands were true, Queen Wilhelmina, 64, might soon abdicate in favor of her son-in-law, Prince Consort Bernhard. At the same time she would raise his status from Prince Consort to King. Behind the rumored move were the Queen's age, the Prince's sudden popularity and the fluid Dutch political situation...
...strange Roosevelt-Hearst misalliance in Seattle came to an end. John Boettiger (the late Franklin Roosevelt's son-in-law) and wife Anna stepped out of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. For eight and a half years John had been publisher, and Anna associate editor. Their reason for quitting: "irreconcilable differences" with Publisher William Randolph Hearst...
Colonel John R. (Tex) McCrary, 34, ex-chief editorial writer of Hearst's tabloid New York Daily Mirror and onetime son-in-law of Hearst's late Pundit Arthur Brisbane; she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan...
...actress-daughter Eileen-known to her friends as Walda, known professionally as Toni Eden-pulled a surprise wedding on her usually alert father. The groom: William Lawless, 29, art-student son of a retired Boston motorman. Next day Winchell reported the event with characteristic aplomb: "First man to scoop Walter Winchell in a long time is William Lawless. . . .'' Two days later, father scooped son-in-law by announcing that daughter had decided to annul...