Word: mother-in-law
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This is eating humble pie. The evening of the day I wrote the "fatback" letter [TIME, Nov. 18], out of a clear sky, my mother-in-law complained of no fatback with which to season greens. The good wife and I almost fainted. It was the first time either of us had ever heard the word used...
Shooting Affair. In Rio de Janeiro, Teodoro Salim saw a woman walking with his fiancee, shot at her, was arrested, said he thought he was shooting his future mother-in-law...
Busily Engaged. In Houston, prospective Bridegroom Frank Trevino asked for a fourth marriage license, explained that his future mother-in-law had torn up the first, during a family row someone had torn up the second, his bride-to-be had torn up the third...
...arms of the Venus de Milo, a keyhole, Harvey (Mary Chase's mythical rabbit). An offstage filter mike confidentially cuts listeners in on the secret. Producer Herb Polesie (rhymes with so-lazy) provides the humor, asking such Oscar Levantine questions as "Can I give it to my mother-in-law?" or "Can I do it to my wife?" But the program's popularity is due largely to the expert questioning of Fred, Florence and Bobby Van Deventer, who have learned to narrow the field of possibility so quickly that they often guess the answer in six or seven...
Bright Idea. In Chicago, a court order forbade Nick Messina to throw lighted matches at his mother-in-law...