Word: mother-in-law
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...clock one morning last week, Dwight Eisenhower strode out of his mother-in-law's Denver home and headed for his Cadillac. As they do almost every morning, a group of neighborhood children swarmed around him, whooping and jumping. Ike stopped to exchange good mornings with them, but his eyes kept straying toward the car. "Goodbye," he said finally. "I gotta go fishing...
...into the Rockies. Twisting and climbing to a top of 11,314 ft. in Berthoud Pass on the Continental Divide, Route 40 west of Denver is a spectacular highway. It was a ride Ike thoroughly enjoyed, and he was making it in pleasant company. With him were his mother-in-law, Mrs. John Doud, and a pair of old friends, General Lucius Clay and Washington Contractor Charles Tompkins. Mamie, who has been feeling under the weather and has appeared in public only twice since her arrival in Denver, stayed home...
Road Test. In Prince George, Va., nabbed for speeding 65 to 80 m.p.h., Johnnie M. Marshall pointed to the woman beside him, confided to police: "I was just trying to frighten my mother-in-law...
Poet Paul Claudel: "I believe that I shall have the strength to turn down the seductive prospect of cremation. The question reminds me of the story about a British statesman whose mother-in-law had died in Argentina. He received a cable asking what should be done with the body-'Bury her or cremate her?' He cabled back: 'Both. Take no chances...
Fumed Oak, billed as "an unpleasant comedy," is the best of the lot. After 17 dreary years of marriage, a respectable suburbanite walks out on his nagging wife, shrewish mother-in-law and doltish daughter. But first, he tells them all off. Betty Ann Davies, Mary Merrall and Dorothy Gordon are suitably unpleasant as the ladies, and Stanley Holloway is just about right as the long-suffering worm who turns...