Word: father-in-law
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...Secret of Madame Blanche puts Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer even with Paramount. Irene Dunne gives a very satisfactory performance as Madame Blanche, who suffers even more acutely than most of her predecessors. When her husband (Phillips Holmes) commits suicide because he is incompetent to support her, her father-in-law (Lionel Atwill) not only fails to send her money but takes away her gurgling child. The child grows up to be a soldier, sets out one night to have a good time. Propelled by laws of coincidence peculiar to stories like this one, he goes to the very cabaret where Irene...
Frau von Hindenburg's babe was born day after the Christmas party at her father-in-law's, shortly before TIME, Jan. 2, went to press. Alert editing made it possible to include the Milestone in the news story...
...should like to give a year's subscription to my father-in-law for a Christmas present. If you will, therefore, be kind enough to send him your issue that comes out on the date nearest to Dec. 25, I will be very much obliged...
...daughter of Conjurer Howard Thurston: Harry Harris. 29, Pittsburgh theatre scion; in Pittsburgh. Charges: because she refused his backgammon advice, he hurled backgammon board, glasses and a ginger ale bottle, tore off her clothes before guest. Not mentioned: the 1931 fight in a Detroit hotel between Defendant Harris & Father-in-law Thurston, leaving two Thurston ribs broken, Harris nearly blinded by a volley from Thurston's tear gas fountain...
Suddenly upon the scene stepped an unexpected figure. John H. Trumbull, the shrewd Yankee merchant who rose from a tiny electrical business in Hartford to be the "flying Governor of Connecticut" and John Coolidge's father-in-law, announced from his Plainville, Conn. home that he had formed a third, "non-partisan" stockholders' committee. He too called for proxies. His committee, said the Governor, was best qualified to judge the merits of the controversy. It included Lessing Julius Rosenwald, potent vice board chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co., William Benson Mayo, onetime chief of Ford aircraft construction. President Howard Coonley...