Word: daughter-in-law
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...into execution, when the two fakirs appear with the wonderful Cat between them. The fakirs bring the guards to life, receive a large reward for their services; the Rao is so delighted to receive his wonderful animal again and is so pleased with the appearance of his future daughter-in-law, that he forgives his son, blesses his daughter and makes peace and alliance with the Maharajah...
...with Gehring for a long time. After an amusing scene of embarrassing complications, Gehring discovers that he in turn loves Stephanie; but trouble is feared from the senator, who is as much opposed to Gehring as a son-in-law as he is to Miss Petzoldt as a daughter-in-law. After countless misunderstandings between the senator and his wife on one side, and the prospective couples on the other, the senator is finally persuaded to agree to the marriage of his son Oscar with Miss Petzoldt; and that of his daughter Stephanie with Dr. Gehring. Last...
...Veteran" is a rather mediocre story from the stand point of college writing of an old man with a termagant daughter-in-law. It is told with patches of Yankee dialect...
...rest of the editorial page is spoiled by a series of editorials on the name and reception of the paper. From these editorials we learn that Quip is "a girl," and from this infer that the central figure on the title page is a portrait of the fair daughter-in-law of Life. We think the editors should have adopted the name suggested in the last editorial, the Yale Brace, as indicating the decided need of the paper. The first picture (on page 5) is enough to spoil any paper, and the joke (?) attached reminds us in its lucidity...