Word: mother-in-law
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After 14 years of marriage to onetime Heavyweight Puncher Lou Nova, his wife decided she wanted a divorce. Among the reasons: his habit of putting his bare feet on the dining room table next to his mother-in-law's lemon meringue...
...three of them: Camp
Breckinridge, Ky., Camp Rucker, Ala., Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. Camp
Rucker and Fort Leonard Wood were bad enough, but Camp Breckinridge
took all prizes: CJ An old doll house, built by a widow for her
daughter, was the home of a sergeant, his wife, mother-in-law and three
children. The house is 14 ft. wide, 9 ft. deep, has no water. Rent: $45
a month, later reduced by the rent-control office to $35.
...personality upsets, although other researchers have found that a man who gets mad at his boss may have an allergic reaction. Rather, Feinberg thinks, the allergic discomforts create the personality difficulty. Moreover, he says sharply, "There is no such thing as allergy to work, to one's mother-in-law, or to one's spouse...
...husband, young Ericson cannot face responsibility any more than he could as a soldier. Teresa arrives hopefully, finds herself cooped up in squalor with a bitter mother-in-law, and tied to a boy who, unable to keep a job or strike out on his own, is soon reduced again to psychoneurotic panic...
...common touch. She wields it this time as the down-to-earth mother of a social-climbing junior executive (John Lund). When Lund marries a diplomat's daughter (Gene Tierney) and lands in her circle of snobs, he cannot bring himself to break the news that his mother slings hash in a Jersey City hamburger joint. He stays tongue-tied when Bride Tierney hires Mother Ritter as the family cook, keeps his secret even after his uppity mother-in-law (Miriam Hopkins) moves in and starts loading his mother with chores...