Word: mother-in-law
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...further illustration of the Pirandello thesis that "nothing is true, but anything might be" was given U. S. theatregoers in 1925 with the production of Right You Are If You Think You Are. Here a husband and a mother-in-law are convinced that his wife and her daughter are two different people. In the mouth of an observer who tolerantly holds that both are right, Pirandello has stated his whole dramatic philosophy: "What can we know really about other people-who they are-what they are-what they are doing, and why they are doing...
Married. Mrs. Livingston French, mother-in-law of John Jacob Astor III; and James Lenox Banks Jr., Manhattan attorney; in Manhattan...
...hours ticked toward midnight two crises neared. A knock at the door might mean either a trained nurse or a political secretary, bursting with news. Queen Astrid was in labor and highly excited was His Majesty's Swedish mother-in-law. So too were all the Cabinet Ministers. Disruption threatened the Cabinet of Premier Count Charles de Broqueville, a delicate coalition formed year and a half ago under the mighty shield of the late King Albert's personal prestige. Thrice before his death the Cabinet was saved only by royal refusals Keystone KING LEOPOLD Like his father...
...that he is very earnest and sincere. The plot has to do with the vicissitudes in the life of this unassuming couple trying to live a peaceful existence. Lammchen is to have a baby, Hans loses his jobs through no particular fault of his, but his flighty mother-in-law is indifferent to helping them. Finally they are taken in as boarders by a splendid old furniture-maker, and the baby is born. He restores their faith in life and gives them courage and happiness for the future...
Singing Wood, a bay colt, is the best of Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's three candidates. Mrs. Whitney's sporting mother-in-law, Mrs. Payne Whitney, tops the mass entry list with five nominees; her husband's cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney has four, but no other Whitney horse compares with Singing Wood. Last year he won the Futurity, was top money 2-year-old with $88,050 winnings...