Word: mother-in-law
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...play opens with the vulgar Party official Skripkin accompanying his mother-in-law shopping for his upcoming wedding. The first act centers on Skripkin's break with his fellow workers to marry into the petty bourgeoisie. The act is, without exception, unintelligible. The fact that the actors must play different parts in each scene, with no apparent logical transition, just adds to the confusion...
...them the only means of survival is marriage, their only protection the family. A girl is frequently married by her late teens. On the wedding night, her parents expect to be able to show proof of her virginity. The girl often goes to work and lives in her mother-in-law's house...
Among other commutations signed by Blanton last week was one for Katie Browder Stricklin, 40, convicted in 1972 for the strychnine poisonings of her mother and father-in-law. She had been acquitted of killing her father and mother-in-law, despite indications that their deaths also resulted from poisoning...
...accused of failing to report to the secretary of the Senate a loan that he had listed in a financial statement to his wife's lawyers during the divorce proceedings. Still pending is an investigation by Massachusetts officials of a possible $72,000 Medicaid fraud involving his late mother-in-law...
Housing begins to slide In California, where the rise in housing prices has been stratospheric, couples have long been willing to sell their souls to the savings and loan - and rent out mother-in-law for window cleaning - in order to realize their dry-wall dreams. But now there are definite signs of slowdown in that willingness to shell out small for tunes for not-so-special homes...