Word: mother-in-law
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...White House." Gossip columnists reported seriously that Jackie was not pregnant-that it was all an elaborate hoax to remove her from the campaign scene. Her biggest battle-the affair of the sable underwear-was touched off when Women's Wear Daily reported that Jackie and her mother-in-law spend $30,000 a year on French clothes. Jackie retorted that she could not possibly spend that much, "even if I wore sable underwear," added gratuitously that she doubted that her wardrobe "cost as much as Mrs. Nixon...
Customarily in her gadding about, Britain's Princess Margaret has flown on Royal Air Force planes. But for a brief visit with her mother-in-law, the Countess of Rosse in Ireland, Margaret and Hus band Antony Armstrong-Jones booked to go on an Irish commercial airliner, tourist class. Possible reason for their plebeian style: if they came winging in over Irish ground in a British military aircraft, it might stir up the wrong kind of feelings...
...Kennedy had Goldwater's ideas, I would vote for him even if he were the Pope's nephew and had a Hindu mother-in-law...
...with gasoline." But like the good soldier of socialism he is, Khrushchev made light of his burdens: "We knew the American Government was not going to greet us with bread and salt. We understood when we went to New York that we would not be going to our mother-in-law to eat pancakes but to work...
...cute as a freckle on a five-year-old. The show, which might also be titled Father Knows Nothing, presents the comic with the excavated face as a bumbler named Potter who is trapped in the customary format: Harassed Man Beaten Down by Wife, Three Daughters, Mother-in-Law. In the opening episode, Ewell could find no better way to outsmart his spendthrift women than closing his bank account and ruining his own credit. For those who may have tuned out early, the women were all set to start spending again...