Word: son-in-law
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These goings-on, naturally, convince Charles Boyer that Rock would make an ideal son-in-law, so he sells Rock on the proposition by picturing the revenge he would have by marrying Leslie and "keeping her pregnant all the time-waddling around with a fat belly." Which is exactly what he does. This desperately tasteless movie closes with a shot of them surrounded by six children, with more to come...
Sunday church is an all-family affair. On one recent Sunday at Sullivan's Methodist Church, the ushers were Charlie, Sons Charles, John and Son-in-Law Roger Roney; Daughter-in-Law Mary played the organ. Until recently, Mabel was the church's membership secretary, and Daughter Janet often sings in the choir. Shuman teaches Sunday school after the service, as he has for 25 years...
...pleased to see proper recognition of Gaudier-Brzeska in TIME [July 23]. I do not, however, own an estate in the Tyrol. The bust referred to is, for the present, at my son-in-law's there...
After Stalin's death, Khrushchev relieved the papers' grey monotony by allowing more lively coverage and makeup. As editor of Izvestia, Khrushchev's son-in-law, Aleksei Adzhubei, introduced a degree of cautious criticism; he also went in for some mild sensationalism, such as reporting the activities of the Abominable Snowman...
...native Dominican Republic with Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo's 17-year-old daughter Flor de Oro (Flower of Gold). Rubi was only a 22-year-old army captain and palace aide, and the Dominican dictator was not very enthusiastic about the match, but he made his new son-in-law a minor envoy to Berlin and was soon convinced he had done the right thing. "He's an excellent diplomat," exclaimed papa, "because women like him and because he is a liar." Flor de Oro tired of Rubirosa in 1937, but Trujillo had found that he came in handy...