Word: mother-in-law
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...oath of allegiance to his future mother-in-law, Queen Wilhelmina, was sworn on the Parade Ground at The Hague last week by German and Nazi Prince Bernhard ("Benno") zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, handsomely accoutered as a Dutch hussar. His Highness was made simultaneously a Navy lieutenant and an Army captain, while his fiancee, Crown Princess Juliana, and her mother the Queen proudly watched...
Object of a waif like Ching-Ching, as seasoned child cinemaddicts are well aware, is to find rich and personable parents to adopt her. Randall is unmarried and the only eligible girl on board, Susan Parker (Alice Faye), is already engaged and traveling with her future mother-in-law. This does not dishearten Ching-Ching. She shows Randall and his valet (Arthur Treacher) how to sing a lullaby, goes sightseeing in Hongkong and voices a few proverbs, which detective picture addicts will recognize as from the Chanese. Sample: "A child without parents is like a ship without a rudder." When...
Married. Mrs. Clara Le Baron Morgan Warren, widow of Wyoming's Senator Francis Emroy Warren, mother-in-law of General John Joseph Pershing; and Albert Wells Russel, retired Cleveland businessman; by Rev. ZëBarney Thorne Phillips, chaplain of the U. S. Senate; in the Washington apartment of Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter of the U. S. Supreme Court...
...Madison, Wis., Secretary of State Theodore Dammann reported a farmer's request for automobile-license number 1907 because in that year his mother-in-law died...
Sometimes the author of the paper came into the press conference. The most interesting experience was that of Professor Malinowski, famed anthropologist, who in explaining his paper to the Fourth Estate said "It cannot be made into a definite science. A mother-in-law cannot be reduced into a mathamatical formula." Continuing he said, in explaining the place that he expected women might have in the future society of the world, "I do not believe that women can ever become the dominant sex. They might become the dominant nuisance...