Word: mother-in-law
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...nation's front pages in 1923; of heart disease; in Gland, Switzerland. His bride-to-be, granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller, daughter of Harold (harvesters) McCormick, was 16 when she announced they would marry; Oser was 44; he was suspected as a fortune hunter, and mother-in-law Edith withheld her blessing for six years after the marriage. The Osers and their two children, new 17 and 15, lived quietly in Switzerland rarely visited...
...basement apartment in Greenwich Village and literary and stage careers respectively. Work on an incipient subway rocks the floor every few minutes. A dog mistakes the bars of their window for a comfort station. A seasonally unemployed professional footballer sleeps in their kitchenette to avoid his mother-in-law. Sister Ruth interests a magazine editor (Brian Aherne) in her copy and person. Sister Eileen innocently entices into their manic ménage their landlord (George Tobias), a Harpo-Marxian painter with delusions of genius; the Harold-Teenish manager of a drugstore; a crafty reporter (Allyn Joslyn); six lighthearted cadets from...
...burglary was freed from jail under bond, went home, shortly came back to report that he had so much domestic trouble he preferred jail. He was readmitted. In Brooklyn, N.Y., Anthony Tesco went free after serving a jail term for assaulting his brother-in-law, went to his mother-in-law's house and knocked her off the back porch...
...sang at the winter season's last matinee. Italian-born Basso Pinza, who had eleven touring dates, also had one with an examining board: he was in the hands of the FBI as a potentially dangerous enemy alien. His second wife, American Doris Leak Pinza, and his mother-in-law described him as an enthusiastic, 100% American. "He never even met Mussolini," declared his wife. Fretted her mother: "I hope they don't hurt his feelings. He is very shy and easily hurt...
Finds. Near Moneta, Wyo., a hunter found an unopened letter in a clump of sagebrush. It was addressed to his mother-in-law, postmarked May 12, 1939. In Hobart, Mich., Ray Loomis found a set of false teeth in his potato patch, returned them to a neighbor who had lost them...