Word: daughter-in-law
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Died. Mrs. Blanche Douglass Leathers, 79, first woman master of a Mississippi River packet, daughter-in-law of Captain T. P. Leathers, commander of the Natchez in its historic 1870 race with the Robert E. Lee; of cerebral hemorrhage; in New Orleans...
...England to his beloved Hanover for a long vacation. Prince George Augustus and lively Caroline proceeded to ingratiate themselves with the English at cheerful Hampton Court, surrounded by learned English divines and delightful English ladies. To the stolid, jealous King, who already detested his son and feared his daughter-in-law, their merrymaking was impertinent. A year later George Augustus and Caroline were summarily expelled from the royal household, set up an "opposition court" at Leicester House, where Careerists Pope and Gay and the ugly Philip Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield, exerted their strenuous good manners...
...Lebanon, Ohio, Mrs. Louella Paugh bequeathed to her daughter-in-law one rolling-pin, one potato-masher...
...Herald printed a categorical denial by Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. that there was any truth in persistent Virginia gossip that he and Ethel du Pont Roosevelt were planning to divorce. Same day Franklin Roosevelt Sr. asked the press to let him make a trip to visit his son & daughter-in-law and F. D. R. Ill (aged nine months) at Charlottesville as "Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones"-i. e. without reporters. The correspondents were sorry: "Mr. Jones" would still be President of the U. S., they must go along...
Since developing from a painfully shy, homely gosling and an inhibited, inferior-feeling wife and daughter-in-law, into a self-confident swan of a woman with the nation for her pond, she has learned to sail through life with serenity. In the rarefied top stratum of official existence, where one can see anything, learn anything, go anywhere, get almost anything done, she wastes no chance to compensate for long years of being (by her own account) a cloistered nobody...