Word: chores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening Their Majesties, though it had been announced that Edward of Wales would perform the chore to spare his parents, held the first two courts of the year at Buckingham Palace. Irma, spouse of Jesse Isidor Straus, U. S. Ambassador to France, was presented in what her dressmaker called "a gown of ice-blue silver lame of streamline cut." At a hint from the Queen most debutantes and dowagers omitted lipstick, mascara, rouge. Since Buckingham Palace was distinctly chilly, some of them grumbled at the Lord Chamberlain's requirement that they appear in decollete. Not to be intimidated, several...
Appropriately enough, Author Ferber's latest run-of-the-mill is about pulp. Come and Get It is the story of Barney Glasgow, who fought his way up from chore boy in a logging camp to lumber king of Wisconsin, then lost his kingdom while it was still worth losing. As usual in Ferber stories, the fortunes of the dubious hero and his train are merely a framework for a lively description of logging society, from the snowy Wisconsin camps to the over-stuffed comfort of a rich small-town community. Barney's defeat...
This tiresome chore done, the Frenchmen got busy next morning with Britons who pull more weight in the National Government than does the Prime Minister, namely, Conservative Party Leader Stanley Baldwin, Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain and such bright younger men as Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, chief economic adviser to the Government, and Captain Anthony Eden, Lord Privy Seal...
Last week Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr. performed an official chore for her husband when she sat through ten reels of a foreign film and pondered for the Secretary of the Treasury the question of whether or not its public showing in the U. S. would damage the morals of the nation. Last November a print of Extase had been seized by customs inspectors under the indecency provisions of the Tariff Act when an attempt was made to import it in Manhattan. But when the time came last week to preview the picture in Washington, Secretary Morgenthau found himself so busy...
...with serious misgivings. First to go were the service codes. Last week the National Industrial Recovery Board struck price-fixing from a basic industry code-Lumber. The job of policing 1,000,000 different prices in an industry composed of thousands of individual units was too much of a chore...