Word: son-in-law
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White-bearded, excitable M. Anatole Deibler, as well-known to French newspaper readers as Edouard Herriot, arrived in Bastia last week on professional business. With him he had his son-in-law, Andre Perrier, and a small traveling guillotine. Since 1879 the Deibler family have been guillotineurs to the French Republic...
...grey hair shaved at the back of the neck. Bandit Spada heard mass kneeling between two guards. Handcuffed, he was then led to the scaffold. It was all over quickly, much to the relief of Executioner Deibler whose machine has been sticking lately (TIME, April 23, 1934). Son-in-law Perrier supervised putting things away, patient in the knowledge that if M. Deibler ever keeps his long-time promise to retire and raise chickens, he will inherit the guillotine business of all France...
Blond, virile, a superb horseman, good tennis player and keen at bridge, Whiskey Salesman von Ribbentrop shortly recouped his fortunes by marrying, in 1920, Fräulein Anna Henkell. daughter of a German maker of champagne which Son-in-Law von Ribbentrop proceeded to popularize in the dry U. S. by shrewdly dealing on Canadian soil with bootleggers' agents...
Signor Mussolini, himself once an editor, now omnivorously directs the whole Italian Press, guiding its newsorgans from a central Rome bureau of which his sleek young son-in-law, Count Ciano, is chief...
...historic occasion. In 1928 Mr. Lowden was Herbert Hoover's chief rival for the Republican nomination. When the party platform at Kansas City went rankly reactionary, the progressive son-in-law of the late George Pullman (sleeping cars) withdrew in a huff, left the convention delegates with but one answer to the question "Who but Hoover?" Last week Mr. Lowden, 74. was no longer a candidate but his work and words were still an important factor in Midwestern Republicanism. And furthermore he was about to be the chief speaker at a great Republican rally at Springfield, Ill. Mr. Hoover...