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Said a Bronx waiter: "First I'd grab my false teeth. . . . If there was time, I'd then put on my pants. And if I still had a little time, I'd kick my mother-in-law in the shins so she couldn't escape. No, that's not cruelty; that's justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: What Would You Do If... | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

...most torrid, non-stop adventure stories since Anthony Adverse. Captain from Castile begins with Pedro going to confession (he had slept through the Bishop's sermon, and kissed Catana Pérez). The book ends, 633 pages later, with Pedro's bride being prepared by her mother-in-law for the nuptial bed ("And breasts so haughty! . . . Such a figure, too; skin like marble. ... I don't wonder he's mad about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Stop Adventure | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

...Owner of a truck would like to correspond with a widow who owns two tires. Object matrimony. Send picture of tires." July. In Denver, Mrs. Martha Martin got a black eye when a stranger walked up and hit her. Said the stranger, apologetically : "I thought you were my mother-in-law...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 8, 1945 | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

...Squeeze. In Boston, Charles Polley bought three auctioned corsets, all different sizes, for $4.75, hoping they would fit either his wife, mother, mother-in-law, or sister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 4, 1944 | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

...Marysville, Calif. Bingo Playhouse, a G.I. won a free five-minute telephone call to any place in the U.S., rang up his mother-in-law in Gridley, Calif., 15? away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 13, 1944 | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

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