Word: aproned
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...then there's the hideous clash of wills between wanting to cuddle said sick child and not really wanting sick child's snot all over your only presentable blouse. There's a marketing opportunity here. What working mom will want to go through life without the Phlegm-Phighting Apron or SnotAway spray...
...early January, two days into the new year, I stopped at Subway at 8 p.m. to buy a sandwich. The restaurant was empty and the fluorescent lights and yellow paint were about the same shade of somber. A woman, apron-clad, emerged from the back and took my order without looking at me. Turkey sub, cheese, lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise. She removed a pre-sliced roll from a large plastic container and put it down on the white counter length cutting board before her. Next she took the turkey, already portioned out and wrapped in plastic, because every Subway sub needs...
Nervously taking her seat, Vicky C. Hallett ‘02 greeted Mystic Mary as she readjusted the small magnetic field reader, paused, touched her right temple and said, “I keep flashing to you as a housewife in an apron standing next to the sink...
...aware of this lingering sentiment, the royals and the bureaucrats who manage the royal family worked hard to remake the imperial image over the past four decades. It's no accident that Akihito picked a commoner, Michiko, to be his wife, and that she was constantly photographed wearing an apron and surrounded by pots and pans in a kitchen, the model of a Japanese housewife. When Naruhito was born, Michiko banished the wet nurses and the royal couple raised him, and their other two children, themselves. The young prince continued the modernization effort, becoming the first royal to study overseas...
...hand-sewn apron, lovingly crafted for my mother who hates to cook, is a tidy combination of several realms of domesticity, and as such, it looks kind of funny hanging in my kitchen. This particular apron is made of material with little menorahs on it. My aunt made it for my mother one scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel gift season. I actually wore it recently, at home over Thanksgiving break while assessing the soup potential of the turkey carcass. I could tell that no one else had worn or washed the apron since early September because a pesto stain...