Word: son-in-law
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...Communication with Il Capo del Governo is naturally difficult. He is very busy," the Fascist Baron told the French Premier apologetically. "Not only are his two sons at this moment en route to Africa, but even his son-in-law is now leaving for the front...
...indictment two remarkable women. One was Mrs. Blanche Dunkel, 42, plain, heavy-jawed washwoman, a four-time widow. The other was her washwoman friend, Mrs. Evelyn Smith, 46, onetime burlesque dancer, prostitute and wife of a Chinese laundryman. Somehow, between them, they had murdered Mrs. Dunkel's son-in-law, a grocer's clerk named Ervin Lang, who after his wife's death last December was planning to remarry. Mrs. Dunkel promptly confessed that she had offered Mrs. Smith $500 for the job, paid $100 on account...
Comparatively stodgy was Chicago newspapers' first theory that Mrs. Dunkel had resented her onetime son-in-law's plan to marry so soon after her daughter's death. Better was the one that she had suspected him of killing her daughter. Best of all was the discovery that Mrs. Dunkel had been jealously in love with her son-in-law, might herself have killed her daughter...
Atrocities, slaves, fate. Since the rest of the warm-hearted world will not easily swallow such ice-hearted candor, Il Duce's Son-in-Law Count Ciano worked happily away in his Ministry of Propaganda last week. His best Ethiopian atrocity: "On the night of May 31 wild Ethiopian tribesmen captured 4,000 head of cattle from an outpost in Italian Eritrea and carried off as slaves a number of men and women. The tribesmen mutilated several children who were abandoned bleeding on desert sands...
...fine art of getting the jump on public opinion, caused announcements to be made while Captain Eden was his guest which provoked abroad such headlines as BRITISH AGREE TO LET Il DUCE RULE ETHIOPIA and REPORT PACT FOR PARTITION OF ETHIOPIA. Premier Mussolini had just raised his son-in-law Count Galeazzo Ciano from Undersecretary to Minister for Press Relations and the Count proceeded to make good last week. Not until Captain Eden emerged from Italy did the World Press tune change to BRITISH FEAR WAR IN AFRICA AS EDEN FAILS IN ROME and EDEN UNABLE TO TURN DUCE FROM...