Word: father-in-law
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...week, L'Osservatore Romano front-paged a theoretical article, written by Msgr. Cardinale, on the general necessity of consular relationships between sovereign states. Asked at a Rome press conference about exchanging consuls with the Vatican, Adzhubei certified that it was "a good idea." Another reporter wondered if Father-in-Law Nikita, who may visit Rome later in the year, would also call on the Pope. Atheist Adzhubei, who earlier had noted that "the Pope does not bite,'' shrugged, and quoted in answer the 15th century Christian mystic Thomas â Kempis: "Man proposes, but God disposes...
...this curious journalistic joust for a prize that both men publicly disavow. Graham has already shown a lordly appetite for possessions. Beginning with the Post, which his father-in-law left him. he has latched onto a newsmagazine and two broadcasting stations. In company with the Los Angeles Times, he pasted together a news syndicate (TIME. July 13) with the second biggest news bureau in Washington (after the New York Times) and an impressive spread of foreign correspondents. On the private preserve of John Hay Whitney, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, he went poaching for big game...
...Plus IQ. City and Country owes its existence to Adolf Hitler. In 1936, the Nazis chased out Roeper's father-in-law...
...went to a surgeon, had it freed, and worked as a janitor in a drama school in order to learn to speak properly. He was soon the friend and protege of John Barrymore. He married Cecil B. DeMille's daughter, but proudly refused to work for his father-in-law and made it on his own at a different studio, meanwhile giving DeMille four grandchildren...
Woody falls in love with his secretary, an attractive intelligent English girl. If he divorces his wife, however, a deal vital to the firm's success will fall through because Woody's father-in-law is in a dominant position financially; the business must fold, and his father's (Howard Da Silva's) heart must break...