Word: mother-in-law
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...Claiborne Foster) languishes in the company of an artist friend powerful with women. Says Husband in plaintive self-defense: "A man who can make love in a falling market may be a hero but he is a damn poor businessman." Into the distress of the last act advances Mother-in-law...
...respected but not admired, adored or heeded by Italians. She came, serious-minded, from her dark Balkan mountains, and the grandeur that was or is Rome has not quickened or enlivened her. Had she possessed the taste for pearls, for magnificence, for pageantry of her late mother-in-law (TIME, Jan. 11, 1926), the Dowager Queen Margherita, splendor-loving Italians might have enthroned Elena in their fickle hearts. But she is practical. Many an Italian soldier, wounded during the World War, knows that it was due to Queen Elena's good sense in supervising the Italian Red Cross that...
...realizes all this but finds it difficult to break a century old habit. He really deserves a lot of sympathy. Not that the Italian Indy hasn't every charm in the world, but any man to be pitied who blunders into a family where Mussolini is the political mother-in-law...
...call myself 'London's fifth mother'? Well, all the scores of college boys and girls who put up at my hotel have a mother and two grandmothers. Then they acquire a mother-in-law, so you see I am the fifth in line...
...Tenn., for the occasion, visited her in the hospital, left, chased a taxi, caught a cold, could not appear as the King in Aida (TIME, Dec. 20). Last week Basso MacPherson sang. He has a pleasant near-basso voice. But only two Nashville people witnessed the triumph-his mother-in-law and his teacher. Because the Metropolitan Opera does not broadcast, Mrs. MacPherson turned off her radio, heard Joseph MacPherson Jr., 2, warble the songs he learned on his basso-papa's knee...