Word: dishpan
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...fathers / according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward...” They continued on.Fools! As though Felicity cared that her husband was cavorting with the housemaid. He was just like his father: a pathetic lout who preferred underfed complexions and the caresses of dishpan hands to the sexual elegance of his beautiful, aristocratic wife. No, how could she care about that? Now that Frederick had retracted his pasty withered stalk from her garden and taken it to the kitchen, she had The Stable Boy all to herself. She should be happy...
...absolutely clear about this: if you can see through it, it's got to be good. Take underarm deodorants. There's Ban Clear and Mennen Lady Speed Stick Crystal Clean. No more of that opaque green stuff. Dishpan hands these days go for Procter & Gamble's lucid Liquid Ivory -- clear soap in a clear bottle -- over white Ivory detergent. Booze? Vodka is in, or maybe a glass of light white wine, or a beer in a clear glass bottle...
...Moonlighting -- coming together, going apart, ever off balance -- but without the humor or irony. Every single movement of the two characters is chronicled, like a time-motion study. When Catherine is done preparing a meal and cleaning it up, a recurring activity, the reader is left exhausted and with dishpan hands...
...years Bertha Kimbrough made parade shoes and walkie-talkie packs in a factory. Before that, for 22 years, she folded sheets in a laundry. Now she diapers babies. "Gee whiz," she says, "dozens of diapers a day! Sweet potatoes for lunch! I do a lot of changes, you get dishpan hands...
...Margaret and her husband Monty are a sketch of the English public school house-master and his wife, but since they know that they are, a bit of realism manages to creep into the joke. Louise's mother, whom we meet only briefly, cheers characters and reader alike, combining dishpan-hands and a low-class accent with friendliness and a talent for the piano that she even reaches out to a blind...