Word: daughter-in-law
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...Judah's daughter-in-law condemned by the Book, when she tricked Judah into a public exposé of his fun-loving nature, in Genesis 38. Not being allowed to send obscene matters through the mails in this empire of holy brethren, I can only cite you the passages involved in Holy Writ, trusting that you have a Bible at hand which has not been censored by any members of the cloth...
...Jenkins by his mother and her second husband, Ira Latimer had long suspected that Thomas Latimer was his father, knew it when he read that Minneapolis' Mayor-elect was born in Hilliard. Thomas Latimer demanded proof, got it. Chief guests at his inauguration last week were his son, daughter-in-law, two-year-old grandson...
...unhappy Columbus convention-goers had scarcely departed for their homes before an enterprising young socialite in Manhattan made them look foolish. Three months ago Mrs. Winthrop Neilson Jr., trim, dark-haired daughter-in-law of a vice president of Aluminum Co. of America, undertook to put on a series of radio programs for the New York Junior League, in order to publicize the League's children's plays. Mrs. Neilson wrote the scripts, Junior Leaguers took the parts, Station WINS gave them 15 minutes weekly. Soon National Broadcasting Co. took notice. Last week NBC signed Mrs. Neilson...
...playwright, a patron of the arts who built a $2,000,000 theatre in Paris, a perfumer, big-game hunter, winemaker. At the San Francisco pier to meet him on the return half of a round-the-world trip were his auto-racing Son Phillippe and his daughter-in-law. Son Phillippe had been quoted in Manhattan as calling French wine "disgusting." To his father, who runs his profitless vineyards for tradition's sake, he earnestly explained: "What I said was that three-fourths of the French wines now reaching America are lousy...
...Anecdotage provoked by the Jubilee drew from equine-featured Margot Asquith's daughter-in-law Lady Cynthia this: "Once the Queen was ill and the King was sitting by her bedside holding her hand, when she fell asleep. Afraid that if he moved she would be awakened, the King remained in the same position for several hours. Another time the King said with deep feeling, 'If anything were to happen to the Queen I should...