Word: mother-in-law
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...Emperor, Bao Dai. When the Viet Minh overran Hué, they shot Diem's oldest brother and the brother's only son, for months held Diem himself captive before turning him loose. Nhu and Can both escaped from the Reds, but Mme. Nhu, her infant daughter and her aged mother-in-law were taken prisoner in December...
...mouth remained painful for more than a week, and she had to be content with a liquid diet and baby foods. What makes this case important, say Drs. George Drach and Walter H. Maloney in the A.M.A. Journal, is that Dieffenbachia-it is also called dumb cane and mother-in-law plant-is such a common house plant that anybody could easily be accidentally poisoned by it. A child who chewed it would become seriously ill, and the effects might be fatal if he swallowed it. For dumbcane stalks contain calcium oxalate, which causes burns similar to those of caustic...
...Sade insisted were only aphrodisiacs. The girl became so ill she went to the police. De Sade, who skipped town in the nick of time, was condemned to death in absentia and burned in effigy. When he ran off with his wife's younger sister, his mother-in-law finally had enough. She trapped the wily marquis and had him flung into prison...
...endorsed private crime was repelled by institutionalized murder. "Murderers, imprisoners, fools of every country and every government, when will you prefer the science of knowing man to that of shutting him up and killing him?" He let off so many aristocrats who came before him, including his hated mother-in-law, that the revolutionaries clapped him back into prison to be guillotined...
Whistler's Mother occupies a place of honor in the Louvre, and Whistler's Mother-in-Law, Mrs. John Birnie Philip, is at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. But what ever happened to Whistler's Grandmother? Sleuths found the answer just in time for Mother's Day. When he was doing the family portraits. James McNeill Whistler never got around to his maternal grandmum, Mrs. Martha Kingsley McNeill. She was painted, nonetheless, by a pair of itinerant artists from Connecticut, and the 19½ in.; by 24-in. oil that Grandma never liked-all those...