Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Princess Fried Egg. Princess Frederika was raised-mostly in Austria-in the stern, proud tradition of Germany's Junker nobility. It was unthinkable, she told schoolmates later in life, that she would ever be permitted to marry beneath her own exalted station...
...herself clung to a strap. Generally hatless, informally dressed and never too neat ("I don't believe Frederi-ka's seams were ever straight," said one teacher), the German princess seemed in many ways as American as her schoolmates. They called her "Freddy" and even "Fried Egg," and often gathered in her room to help her wrestle with the groaning accordion she sought to master...
...maintained "at home, across the breakfast table, in bed." It must not be undermined by cracks. Never greet your husband with the words: "Well, how's the Boy Genius? Did you bring home any commissions? I suppose you know the rent is due next week?" Other ways to egg a man on: watch his "calorie intake." take him to a medical mechanic for a "regular 10,000-mile checkup," share his interests...
Career: After two years as a grocery clerk, Mitchell opened his own butter and egg store, went bankrupt four years later. In 1929 he went to work as a clerk in the Western Electric Co. plant at Kearny, N.J., lost the job in a 1932 Depression layoff. The Depression brought him his first public job, as director of the Emergency Relief Administration in New Jersey's Union County. In 1936 he returned to Western Electric as a clerk, but soon moved on to personnel training. Two years later Lieut. Colonel Brehon Somervell, then New York administrator of the Works...
...Atlantic seaboard after his week in Washington and Williamsburg, Va. He toured Philadelphia (his hostess-guide: Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining, once his tutor in Tokyo), took the Pennsylvania Turnpike at 75 m.p.h.. and, at the R.C.A. laboratory in Princeton, N.J., watched color television and inspected the egg of a sea urchin (magnified 10,000 times by an electron microscope). In New York the Prince turned up at a Yankees-Browns night game, was a red-carpet guest at City Hall, visited the Stock Exchange and United Nations headquarters, and was feted at a Waldorf-Astoria dinner...