Word: daughter-in-law
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...President carved and helped eat a 40-lb. Thanksgiving turkey with Mrs. Eisenhower, his son Major John, daughter-in-law Barbara, grandchildren David, 9, Barbara Anne, 8, Susan Elaine, 5, and Mary Jean, almost 2. "The President is in fine spirits," said a new medical bulletin. "His progress continues to be excellent...
...Fitzgerald Kennedy be brought into the campaign. "But she's a grandmother," objected Joe Kennedy. "That's all right," said Powers. "She's a Gold Star mother, the mother of a war hero and a Congressman, the wife of an ambassador, the daughter of a mayor and Congressman, the daughter-in-law of a state senator and representative. She's beautiful and she's a Kennedy. Let me have her." Powers got her, and in the last weeks Rose Kennedy traveled Massachusetts, carrying with her a complete change of wardrobe, from simple blouses and skirts...
...leave home as soon as they are wed because they stand little chance of getting anything from father's estate after big brother is through with it). After him comes mother, who is the real ruler of the roost. At the bottom of the list cringes the daughter-in-law, or oyome...
...Simone and the doctor languished in separate jails, old Madame Evenou mooned sadly over the fate of her lost daughter-in-law. "I tried," she said regretfully, "I tried to teach her to make appetizing little dishes-that's what attaches one to a man. But she just didn't care about cooking...
...fact that Britain was engaging the French army hotly in battle over the Spanish succession did not deter George I from ordering a whole Paris trousseau for his daughter-in-law. Marie Antoinette's dressmaker, Rose Bertin, maintained Paris' reputation for extravagant whims, and after the Revolution, aristocratic ladies carried on with the macabre fancy of dressing 'àa la victime,' their hair shorn off as in preparation for the guillotine and their necks bound by a thin red ribbon to simulate the cut of the knife. Trade thrived, and soon Louis' chief minister...