Word: father-in-law
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...distinctly in the Chic Sale tradition; in their privies most U. S. citizens used old newspapers and catalogues or unmarked pads of rough yellow paper clamped together with staples. The Scotts began specializing in this line, got the jump on their competitors when E. I. Scott's father-in-law designed the first enclosed toilet paper container. In 1890 Scott also placed the first toilet paper advertising-a chaste piece in the Atlantic Monthly. For the next decade the sales theory of toilet paper was as many brands as possible: Scott had 2,800 with such choice names...
...Sands), 30-year-old son-in-law of Winston Churchill. Like the Duchess of Atholl (see p. 17) and Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, member of the House of Lords (TIME, July 4), Sandys is a Conservative who has quit the Chamberlain ranks and is now regarded as his father-in-law's voice from the "back benches...
When in 1936 Producer David Oliver Selznick bought the screen rights to Margaret Mitchell's 1,520,000-copy Gone With the Wind, cinemaddicts jumped to the conclusion that, since his father-in-law is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Vice President Louis Burt Mayer, Producer Selznick would promptly cast two M-G-M stars-probably Clark Gable and Norma Shearer-as Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara. Instead, Producer Selznick shrewdly announced that he had no idea who would play Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara, said he hoped to discover unknown actors for the parts...
Presently Father Roosevelt, accompanied by his sons and other members of Harvard's Fly Club, disappeared in a private room to administer to Johnny the secret rites for newlywed brethren. When the time came, Johnny & Anne, their getaway covered by a bulky Secret Service car, set out to the summer home of Brother James's father-in-law, Dr. Harvey Gushing, at Rye Beach, N. H., thence to Campobello Island...
...daughter, Elisha washed dishes for $12 a week, read copy on a newspaper, for years could not afford a new suit. His only money was tied up in a $1,200 savings account his great-uncle had started in 1899. One day Elisha's wife begged her father-in-law for this puny sum. Legend has it that when he refused, she produced a horsewhip, thrashed him soundly in the lobby of his swank Manhattan office building. In 1928 she died, and Elisha sent his daughter, Audrey Bridget, to live with his parents while he gradually began to succeed...