Word: daughter-in-law
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...play in this respect it has the compensating advantage of being able to show close-ups of Miss Crews's face, as it becomes ingratiating, anxious, angry, greedy, terrified and, finally, a twitching mask of misdirected lust. Good shot: Mrs. Phelps spilling a cocktail when her daughter-in-law says that she expects a baby...
...household of a Chief of Police she got along beautifully till the Chief began to pat her on the back and his wife to bully her. But then young Otto came along again, still yearning. They were married in style. Tycoon Hellenberg, no snob, approved of his daughter-in-law, despised his attractive son as a shiftless waster. Susanne did her best to get Otto interested in business and succeeded fairly well, but she could not keep him from cheating. Finally she left him, went back to the bakery to live. There she thought it all out, came...
...group of White House callers who did not see the President last week consisted of nine socialite women from New York and Chicago petitioning for the "constitutional rights" of the oncoming hunger marchers (see p. 10). Included in the delegation were Mrs. Corliss Lament, daughter-in-law of Morgan Partner Thomas William Lamont, New York's Mrs. William Osgood Field Jr., Chicago's colorful Mrs. Polly Chase Boyden. Secretary Joslin met them, told them they could not see the President. "Who made that decision?" asked Mrs. Field. "I did," replied Secretary Joslin. "Is this the usual procedure...
...Jarrolds were not an aristocratic family, but that had not prevented them from running to seed, and in only two generations. Best of the lot, and favorite of old Grandpa Jarrold, was his widowed daughter-in-law, Evelyn. She enjoyed her position, her wealth, her adored son Dan's adoration-even her widowhood, until she met Miles Vane-Merrick. Miles was an aristocratic but land-poor farmer, an Old Etonian but intelligent and unconventional, Member of Parliament but a Laborite. And he fell in love with her though he was young enough to be her nephew. Conventional as only...
...witticisms with a smile more vehement than that of the late Theodore Roosevelt. He is Lord Grenham, an ill-behaved but jolly curmudgeon whose experience in getting himself out of romantic scrapes stands him in good stead when he is trying to right things between his son and daughter-in-law. In addition to poor casting-a defect common to British cinemas because the best British actors are either on the stage or in Hollywood-this one, second product of Paramount's Elstree studio to be released in the U. S., suffers from poor photography and sound recording. Typical...