Word: bombeck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank, Bombeck...
Total Amateur. But when she allows herself to look back on how things were during the three years it took to write Ordinary People, cleverness and common sense struggle with a kind of Erma Bombeck rue. "Nobody had any underwear," she recollects. "Truth to tell, my family is very tolerant. But some days I'd look at the house and think it was a mess and say to myself 'Why are you doing this?' " She wrote in the mornings when the house emptied, never at night. And rarely in the summer because the boys were...
...excited fan ripped an advertisement off the wall and held it above his head for the throng to see. "Erma Bombeck Writes for the Boston Globe" received a chorus of cheers as her picture was thrust up above the rabble...
...husband," Erma Bombeck cheerily told a visitor last week, "works as a supervisor of social studies for secondary schools, and if you have a space between your teeth that's hard to say." Syndicated Columnist Erma has a big space between her own front teeth. She also has, by her description, "fat calves, unmanicured hands, makeupless eyes" and is "overweight, overworked, over-childrened and underpatienced." But one thing is clearly going for her: irresistible humor about the trials of being a housewife...