Word: mother-in-law
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...generally funny. Pa, bent with thirty years of toil, has just been made head bookkeeper at the plant --the heart and soul of Cranetown. Horace, the eldest son, has married and is doing well in the export department, while studying psychology by mail. Dolores, his wife and her mother-in-law's echo, is learning to cook. His brother Gordon is on the eve of realizing his ambition: a Phi Beta Kappa Key at the Mid-State University and a job in the teller's cage at the Cranetown National Bank. Ma Actopel, a sacrificing wife who has seen hard...
Died. Count Mattachich, Austrian nobleman and former Army officer, in Paris. Twenty years ago he eloped with Princess Louise of Saxe- Coburg-und-Gotha, daughter of Leopold II of Belgium, wife of Prince Philippe of Saxe-Coburg-und-Gotha, mother-in-law of the late Kaiserin's brother, Duke Ernst Günther. He was at once imprisoned on a charge of forgery; she was shut up in an asylum. Six years later, he carried out an abduction of the Princess. Thereafter, in spite of poverty and snubs, they never separated...
...customary criminal secret society with its grips and passwords. THE LATE MATTIA PASCAL-Luigi Pirandello-Dutton ($2.50). What is human identity? Your mind? Your body? Your clothes? Your official papers? Mattia Pascal wondered -when an accident gave him a chance to flee from an unpleasant wife, a snarling mother-in-law, unbearable surroundings. The identification of a stray corpse as his own covered his tracks completely by officially removing him from the lists of the living. He started a new life as Adriano Meis-in many respects a more pleasant one, for he made money and fell in love...
...claimed that a reconciliation has taken place in the Hohenzollern family. The Duchess of Brunswick, "only daughter of the Kaiser, arrived at Doom accompanied by her husband. She had previously refused to recognize her mother-in-law Princess Hermione, spouse of the Kaiser. It is presumed that her visit cancels her former attitude. Monarchist circles attach great importance to the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Brunswick...
...claimed that a reconciliation has taken place in the Hohenzollern family. The Duchess of Brunswick, "only daughter of the Kaiser, ar rived at Doorn accompanied by her husband. She had previously refused to recognize her mother-in-law Princess Hermione, spouse of the Kaiser. It is presumed that her visit cancels her former attitude. Monarchist circles attach great importance to the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Brunswick...