Word: son-in-law
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Senator James Couzens of Michigan, meeting William Jeffries Chewning Jr., his son-in-law, for the first time at lunch in Washington, told reporters: "He seems a very nice chap." Mr. & Mrs. Chewning had eloped to Baltimore (TIME...
...embassy after asking that a list of the other guests be first submitted to him as though he were royalty. He also said: "I sat right next to the wives of our delegation [at the opening of the conference]. . . . Mrs. Morrow was telling me what an awful fine son-in-law Lindbergh had turned out to be. . . . When Mr. Stimson said we will stay here till the world disarms, his wife says, 'My Lord...
...Germany the Duke of Brunswick, son-in-law of onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II, announced that he had sold for $2,500,000 certain medieval gems and knick-knacks known as the "Guelph Treasure," to Goldschmidt Galleries, Inc., of Manhattan...
Diplomatist Moffat, plump, pleasant, pompous, is no nobody. He is the socialite scion of the three venerable Manhattan families whose names he bears, a Harvard graduate, a son-in-law of U. S. Ambassador to Turkey Joseph Clark Grew. Succeeding Laura Harlan as social secretary to the White House in the Coolidge Administration, he held that delicate post until its duties were transferred to a division of protocol in the state department. Attaché Moffat's most important previous diplomatic work was with the U. S. Legation in Warsaw during Soviet Russia's brief attempt to conquer Poland...
Lively and perennial is the dispute between the Modernists and Fundamentalists of pedagogy over the merits and morals of the jingles which Mrs. Elizabeth Foster Vergoose of17th Century Boston sang to her large brood of moppets and which her son-in-law, one T. Fleet, published in 1719 as Songs for the Nursery or Mother Goose's Melodies for Children...