Word: daughter-in-law
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Nearing Kiowa the car went out of control, crashed through the guard rail of a bridge over the Medicine Lodge River, and landed upside down in the water. Neither the driver, Ray Munsell Sr. (who apparently had had a heart attack), nor his wife survived; their daughter-in-law was knocked unconscious...
...went well with her for a while-even after the Communists took over the village. But in October she wrote her oldest son, Joe Lum Jang, a San Francisco apartment operator, a frightened letter. She had been arrested by the Communists for the peculiar crime of "mistreating her daughter-in-law." They attempted to make her "confess" by torture, but she refused. Then her face was daubed with paint-the mark of an "unlawful woman"-and she was forced to stand before the village courthouse without food or water. After a day and a night she broke down and paid...
...London, Mrs. Adrian Conan Doyle, daughter-in-law of the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, announced a new dollar-earning scheme. She will bring the Baker Street room of Sherlock Holmes, assembled for exhibition at the Festival of Britain, on a tour of the U.S. next spring...
...mother in Chicago to be developed. When it was, she was amazed to see the image in the clouds. She sent the copy to her brother in Ashland, who made more copies. Mrs. Dobbins had got her picture from a neighbor, who got it from her daughter-in-law, who bought it for $1 from a woman who got it from an unnamed...
...were flops, and life was hard and gritty. Nevertheless, he traveled, met the famous, became well-tailored, suave and bald, and shortened his name to the more fashionable C. Blevins Davis. In 1946, at the age of 45, he married an aging heiress named Marguerite Sawyer Hill, a daughter-in-law of Rail Tycoon (Great Northern) James J. Hill. When she died in 1948, C. Blevins inherited...