Word: mother-in-law
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...general, who had fled Italy at the coming of Benito Mussolini. The de Bonzes had three children, were divorced in 1930. Recently Enzo de Bonze sought a reconciliation with his wife. Calling on her on Friday the Thirteenth, he shot himself right before the eyes of his horrified mother-in-law. He died later in the day. A heavy police guard was placed over the Premier's apartment. No one would give any interviews...
...inspects mansions for a new residence, boasts of his railroad holdings, marries her. The cars were demonstrators and he is a $32.50 railway clerk. Soon in debt, with his salary garnisheed. they move in on the Fisher family, where his asinine laughs, platitudes and backslapping madden his sardonic mother-in-law. J. Aubrey loses his job, wrecks a borrowed car, is cast off by his wife. By stupid luck he muddles out of his despair to remain the same conceited show-off to the end. Good shot: ¶Ma & Pa Fisher after the wedding reading Aubrey's travel folders...
Divorced. Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, 28; by Thalia Fortescue Massie, 23; in Reno. Two years ago in Honolulu Mrs. Massie was attacked by five natives, one of whom Lieut. Massie and his mother-in-law kidnapped, later shot to death. Defended by Clarence Darrow, Lieut. Massie was convicted of manslaughter, but sentence was commuted (TIME, May 16, 1932). Grounds for the divorce: extreme mental cruelty, "no connection with the murder case." Three days after the divorce Mrs. Massie was in a Reno hospital, under treatment for acute alcoholism...
...Edgar Allan Poe took his 20-year-old wife Virginia Clemm and his mother-in-law to a "rose-covered cottage" at No. 530 N. Seventh St., Philadelphia. There he wrote The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death, The Black Cat. In 1929 the cottage, ramshackle and slum-shadowed, was purchased by Department Storeman Richard Gimbel who founded a Memorial Society to preserve it. On Poet Poe's 125th birthday last week 1,500 guests of the Society heard his praise spoken by Owen D. Young, Heywood Broun, William Lyon Phelps, saw the cottage dedicated to his memory...
...Mother's scene is China, a small, poor village. Readers will notice gratefully that almost no proper names are used. The heroine is a buxom, warm-tempered young wife who finds her hard life good. Days she spends in the field working beside her man. At evening she cooks for her three children and her aged mother-in-law. She has no spare time and knows what the future will be, but her only worries, soon forgotten, are her daughter's sore eyes, her husband's occasional moody discontent. Her happiness is shattered when...