Word: son-in-law
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...jazz, comedy or karaoke. The restaurant had set aside its plushly decorated VIP room for the Brown party. At one point during the evening, the hostess took an odd telephone call from two women who asked whether they could come to the party without invitations. Phyllis and her son-in-law noticed a man rush to get a table near them as the party was breaking up and the band was about to play. He seemed almost creepy, sitting and staring until two more men joined him. About then, Teresa Hood showed up in her leopard-print pants. A county...
...told my wife, 'The baby is awful looking.' She said, 'He'll be o.k.' I said, 'No, he looks like a fish. It's a shame. Such nice people.'" At first, I thought "such nice people" was an oddly detached way of referring to his daughter and son-in-law, but then I realized that after getting that first traumatic glimpse of me, he must have felt the need to distance himself from a human couple that had produced a fish...
...play "A Man For All Seasons," Thomas More's son-in-law tells More that he would cut down all the laws in England to get the devil. More replies that he would give the devil himself the benefit of law for his own safety's sake--for after the laws were felled, nothing could withstand the winds that would howl, there being no place left to hide. The greatest casualty in the war on drugs has been chipping away of the forest of laws that represent our civil liberties. And no liberty has been pinched tighter than that against...
When General Harrison Gray Otis acquired the Los Angeles Times in 1882, it was little more than a partisan, gossip-filled rag. Over the next century, his son-in-law Harry Chandler and his descendants shaped it into the well-respected newspaper it is today. From their humble beginnings, the Los Angeles Times and its parent Times Mirror Co. have grown into a media powerhouse with several publications and television stations under their control. But after the announcement March 13 that the Tribune Co., the owner of the Chicago Tribune and various other newspapers and television stations, will...
...chosen homespun robes, he says, because they make "the most sense" and help avoid a textile industry that "enslaves its workers." Still, living much as Jesus did--declining money and subsisting on charity--is key to winning supportive friends. Says Connie Muir, whose daughter and son-in-law housed him for two months last fall: "He speaks to the deepest part of your soul." And Joseph sees possibilities in this land of shuttered mines. "There's a faith waiting to come out. It's like a beautiful heart is under there, but the coal dust has settled and needs...