Word: bassinet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whipping up for Dad; all embroidery done during The Period of Expectancy is performed under the pale light of a cut-glass chandelier, in a full-length chiffon hostess gown, no matter that it's the middle of the day. Or she shows three-year-old Junior the bassinet being readied for Baby; Junior, never having heard of sibling rivalry or displacement, smiles as he runs his freshly scrubbed hands over the imported organdy flounces that Mummy can have laundered for not more than...
...reality is different. If mother-to-be looks particularly rosy, chances are that the cause is not inner radiance but an in creased metabolic rate. If she has fallen for that bassinet smothered with well-starched frills, she would do well to have a plain old basket standing by should it ever become necessary for the child actually to go to sleep. And if, throughout the nine months of her pregnancy, the mother-to-be remains as slim and svelte as she appears in the magazines, then it is possible that what she is expecting is a paycheck rather than...