Word: father-in-law
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...libretto survives from the original version. A gay and clever girl marries into a loveless, thankless life among crude and cruel merchants. A love affair blossoms with one of her husband's workmen, and, bewitched by the promise of a new life, she kills both husband and father-in-law. Just as she and her lover take happy possession of the Mtsensk manor house, the crimes are discovered; on her way to Siberia in a column of convicts, she is taunted by her lover's new woman, and she pushes the interloper into an icy lake and jumps...
...bosses who hire sons-in-law reap whirlwinds of the like of Daniel E. Hogan Jr., 46. After the marriage, Yaleman Hogan helped Father-in-Law John Bolten sell his small Massachusetts plastics company, start a successful transistor plant, sell that, and then buy into a string of small businesses that range from printing to Latin American Coca-Cola franchises. Their biggest purchase, three years ago, was Lestoil liquid detergent, which was doing well then but shortly afterward was hard hit by the entrance of the giants into the field; sales sagged from $24 to $14 million. Hogan, after first...
...next day, Saturday, November 23, President Johnson proclaimed a national day of mourning. A fire in an Ohio rest home killed 63 elderly patients. A man watching television stabbed his father-in-law to death when the father-in-law disparaged Kennedy. In Washington, it poured rain, for the first time in weeks...
...company has been under the Schneiders since 1836, when brothers Eugene and Adolphe Schneider started making locomotives and munitions south of the Burgundy wine district at Le Creusot. Under Liliane's elegant and cynical father-in-law, the late Charles Prosper Eugene Schneider, the company shipped arms to most of the world's warring nations. It bought iron mines, foundries and shipyards, and won control of more than 200 arms plants outside France, including Czechoslovakia's Skoda, which it sold to Czech interests just before the Nazis occupied all Czechoslovakia. The French government nationalized Schneider...
...population of 1,000,000, the tribe spreads from the Congo's Katanga province into both Portuguese Angola and Northern Rhodesia. The Lunda's most illustrious son is Katanga's secessionist leader Moise Tshombe, who married a daughter of Mwata Yambo XXIV. When his father-in-law died last June of a burst bladder, Tshombe for a time was considered as successor. But the tribal elders, suspecting that Moise might sell them out to the white man, finally settled on a minor chieftain (original name: Gaston Mushidi), who was invested in impressive rites that raised...