Word: mother-in-law
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...know, there really was a time in my life when I didn't get any respect. Ed Sullivan used to bring me on as the warm up act for Topo Gigio. When Parade magazine printed "My Favorite Jokes," they ran them in the Obituaries column. My mother-in-law is so fat that...
...mother-in-law is on a low-cholesterol diet...
...United Nations earlier this month, members of Soviet Diplomat Arkadi Shevchenko's staff were astonished when their ordinarily aloof, impersonal boss confided that he had a grievous family worry: his mother-in-law was so ill that he had to fly home to Moscow. Summoning security guards, Shevchenko ordered his private office sealed. Then the stooped, round-faced Under Secretary-General strolled out of U.N. headquarters in Manhattan and disappeared...
...together last week (the Concord was never so supersonic...), and one night in the dining hall, as the waiter was bringing around those gorgeous little kreplachs, Shecky mounted the table and spontaneously burst into a series of his best jokes ever. Then, faster than you could say, "My mother-in-law is so annoying that..," he'd launched into an evocative Totie Fields imitation, and the dining room crowd--all of whom had long since stopped eating--either sat spellbound or rolled in terminal hysterics on the floor. In the schvitz-bath the next morning, I asked him what that...
...Pond Gap, W.Va., a miner's wife walked into the general store, passed the potbellied, coal-burning stove and went to the back, where she opened a nervous conversation with Proprietor Virgil Huddleston. Finally, she got to the point. Her mother-in-law was coughing up blood and needed to go to the hospital, but the family could not afford to send her. Would Huddleston advance her a loan? He dug $50 out of his pocket. "As long as I've got it," he said, "I'm happy to help...