Word: father-in-law
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...prepared by Young & Rubicam, frankly admit that "Dr Pepper" sounds like the name of a fiery patent medicine. In fact, though the drink was concocted in 1885 by a Waco, Texas, druggist and named after his physician father-in-law, it looks like a cola and tastes like a blend of cola, cherry and cream soda. The commercials stress the theme that, though many people are reluctant to try it, they like it once they take the plunge. Their approaches range from the outrageous (a Latin dictator besieged in his palace by a howling mob demanding that he take...
...Tonight Show. ("The Museum of Natural History took her shoe and, based on her measurement, they reconstructed a dinosaur.") In 1966 Allen was married again, this time to Actress Louise Lasser, daughter of S. Jay Lasser, the tax expert. Woody could have used a little of his father-in-law's advice: his income was around $250,000 a year...
...works--a screamingly funny scene in which the young doctor whom Argan intends for his daughter pays his first visit. Bill Fuller is short, fat and funny-looking, with a high-pitched voice and a great pair of pointed French eyebrows. His carefully rehearsed speeches to his prospective father-in-law and wife steal the scene, and some business he has with a glass of milk and Nestle's Quik is the high point of the show...
Unpleasant Surprise. Wright's troubles apparently started in October 1963, when he witnessed a will for Mrs. Shirley Pierce. The will named him as executor. After Mrs. Pierce died in November 1964, Wright sold her house to his father-in-law for the modest sum of $5,000. Only two months after the sale, the father-in-law resold the property...
With a year's grace granted by the Portland school committee, the tenacious lobstermen decided to try catching new children on the mainland for their school. O'Reilly's father-in-law found a family with six children willing to make the move. Trouble was, O'Reilly's father-in-law is head of the Portland welfare office, and the family he wanted to import was among his clients. In Maine, a lot of people still believe a man should always earn his own way. The islanders talked and debated and finally made a choice...