Word: father-in-law
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...husband had been getting letters from an illegitimate daughter. When Oliver Wendell Holmes discovered the undercurrents in the mansion, he exclaimed with relish, "What a household! Mrs. Craigie hiding her letters in the attic and Mr. Craigie hiding his letters in the cellar!" When Longfellow married, his father-in-law bought the house for the couple, and soon their home became a great social and literary center. Among the visitors were Emerson, Louis Phillippe, Don Pedro II of Brazil, Hawthorne, and Dickens. But in 1861 Longfellow's bustling happiness was cut short. His wife, sealing up packages of her daughter...
...liked Canada's unrationed clothing and the crisp climate, had disliked her French Canadian in-laws mainly because father-in-law "would sit there and spit through his teeth at the fire. Well, maybe you've got to spit some time, but not through your teeth-and not all the time...
They will have to work at least as hard as their new boss. But with a $60 million budget and all that property to play with, Bill Goetz will be hard for even his father-in-law, MGM's mighty Louis B. Mayer, to match...
...minutes later, Mather called back. "Well, it crashed: there are two dead. Crashed right into my father-in-law's filling station...
...with Walgreen's. A chain of such stores has been the dream of United's energetic, athletic president, Justin Whitlock Dart, 38, ever since he was started in the drug business by Charles R. Walgreen Sr., then his father-in-law. He soon proved that his job did not depend on nepotism. Over the objections of fellow executives, he busily rearranged the interiors of Walgreen drugstores, showed that it was just as important to put an article in the right place in a store as to put the right things in the manufacture of the article. Sample change...