Word: mother-in-law
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...Saturday Evening Post, Johnson wrote nearly 100 screenplays in 35 years, including such classics as The Grapes of Wrath, Tobacco Road, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and The Three Faces of Eve. A wisecracker, he quipped after two divorces: "I always insist on custody of the mother-in-law...
...allegation simply reopened an issue Walker exploited in the primary: that Hewlett accepted $15,000 annually from a steel company while he was on the state payroll. "How else are you going to raise a family of six children and take care of a 90-year-old mother-in-law?" Hewlett asks...
...point, Trintignant yells at a demanding male lover, "I gave up women because they're ball breakers - but you're worse!" A beleaguered civil servant, his massive family wedged into a small car for vacation, wonders if a last-minute phone call concerned his ailing mother-in-law; then he hears the old lady pipe up "I'm here" from somewhere in the crowd between the back seat and the trunk. The Sunday Woman does not contain enough of these modest jokes to call them saving graces. They are more like simple amenities...
...seized Southerners-is Birmingham Hardware Distributor Tony Brandino, who never attended the university. Since 1954 he has made it to 239 Crimson Tide games in a row, traveling as far as California and forgoing, among other things, a free trip to Switzerland and the mourning period for his mother-in-law. Brandino recalls: "The first time I ever heard about football, I was nine years old and it was a radio broadcast of the 1925 Rose Bowl-Alabama v. Washington. I've been hooked since." Brandino and his crimson-and-white 28-ft. motor home are a fixture...
...tense exchanges that result run to repetitive caricature, like mother-in-law jokes. "I felt like walking off and saying, 'Go ahead. Play the whole court.' " "My husband's favorite words are 'Shut up and hit the ball.' " Frosty silences can be plangent too. Carl Rowan remembers that when he used to play with his wife Vivien (a better player than he is), there were times when he did not dare look at her on the court. "I knew if I caught her eye, we'd spat." They get on better now because his game has improved. Ira Herrick...