Word: mother-in-law
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...show runs two hours without a blush; you can bring your mother-in-law to see it, and you don't have to worry...
...fact that Carrie Nation and even the Will Hays office couldn't find anything to kick about doesn't make "Sim Sala Bim" any less of a slambang, rip-roaring event, which makes up in excitement what it lacks in sex. You can bring your mother-in-law to see it, all right, but you'd better make sure she's got a sturdy constitution...
Then ex-Hero Lindbergh took to radio-rating. He preached isolation, advised the U. S. to let Europe stew in its own poisonous juice. Protests stormed: even Mrs. Dwight Morrow, his mother-in-law, joined in them. Anne Lindbergh kept her own counsel...
When she began writing, her mother-in-law insisted, "I no believe the womens can write. If all were known, you find the mens write those books for them." Gertrude Atherton spent the next half-century defying the mens and her mother-in-law. Literature, like the stage, was a low, unladylike profession. Her first novel was the scandal of California society in 1892. She was probably the first refined U. S. female to smoke a cigaret in public: women fainted, men boiled, editors sizzled, preachers raged...
Good shot: Powell arriving back at his home town of Habersville. Pa. after his recovery from amnesia. When his mother-in-law, whom he fails to recognize, rushes to embrace him in front of the crowd at the station, he points to Miss Loy, whispers confidentially: "Ixnay! The wife...