Word: daughter-in-law
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...doing all in my power to spare her. . . ." Once before, when their secret marriage was announced in 1926, M. Dubonnet had spared the best dressed woman in Europe from the blows of a stick in the hands of his irate mother, who objected to her new daughter-in-law's notoriety. At 15 Jean Donaldson, daughter of an Erie Railroad vice president, ran away from a Manhattan school to marry John Stanley Kirwan. son of a real estate operator. The marriage was annulled before the birth of Andrew. Mrs. Kirwan next married and divorced Captain Winneld Sifton...
...propaganda against Candidate Alfred E. Smith. When Herbert Hoover refused him southern patronage Mann turned against him. tried to block Hoover's renomination. In 1933 Mr. & Mrs. Mann were converted to Catholicism. ¶Died. Mrs. Helen Phipps Martin, wife of Financier Bradley Martin; daughter of the late Henry Phipps. Carnegie partner; daughter-in-law of the hostess of the famed "$1,000.000 goldplate" dinner which aroused the protests of pastors and reformers in 1910; after an appendectomy; in Pasadena. ¶Died- Adelheid Emma Wilhelmina Theresia, 75, Dowager Queen of The Netherlands, mother of Queen Wilhelmina; of bronchitis...
...main plot themes: 1) Ivan Borodin's efforts to deal with his political superiors, who appoint incompetents to assist him and interfere with his scientific researches; 2) the sad case of Amalya, a withered female aristocrat. Borodin makes Amalya his housekeeper while officials appoint her ignorant daughter-in-law his assistant. This coincidence brings together Amalya and her Communist son. At the end of the play, the son has lost his membership in the Party and, with old Amalya, sets off to become a mendicant. The part that Russian audiences enjoy most in Fear occurs in the second scene...
...more sensitive a medium than newsprint, but today's banker-conscious readers may consider the style and the subject well matched. A protracted Sunday-supplement feature story. The First Billion casts the late James Stillman for the No. 1 role, with his son. James, his daughter-in-law, "Fin." Frank Vanderlip and Charles E. Mitchell in minor parts. Though Biographer Winkler cannot make Banker Stillman out a double-dyed, red-handed villain, he does succeed in conveying the impression that he was cold as a fish, unlovable, cautious, secretive, able. As Winkler tells it. the precocious but well-boosted...
...agent. Then a friend has to help her have an abortion. The agent will have nothing more to do with her. Too late she discovers her daughter is blind. As her sons grow up, the elder resents her fondness for his ne'er-do-well brother, who leaves home, takes to dubious ways. Though she has wanted her sons to marry, she objects to the efficient daughter-in-law who takes her place as mistress of the house. When she too hastily marries off her blind daughter among strangers whose ill-treatment kills her, when her beloved younger...