Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Best-paid careers for men ($2,500 or more after eight years) were dentistry, medicine, law, public office, architecture, insurance, research, forestry, business, :elephone work. Poorest-paid (averaging under $2,000): journalism, the ministry, clerical work. Biggest single group (17%) went into teaching, averaged about $2,000 eight years after graduation. Best-paid occupations for women were nursing and teaching. Big-college graduates were better paid than alumni of small colleges...
...whole group (out of college one to eight years), less than half the men and about a third of the women were married. After eight years out, a quarter of the men were still bachelors, half the women still spinsters...
...fashion eight years ago offered a memorial (oblique hats) to France's late ex-Empress Eugenie, Vogue last week proposed a similar memorial to Britain's late slim, beauteous, Danish-born Queen Alexandra, wife of Edward VII. Vogue's memorial: wasp waists, a fitting accompaniment to upswept hair, shirtwaists, petticoats. Said Vogue: "Now that we are going to wear 'Queen Alexandra' dresses . . . what shall we do about figures? We'll want waists a little smaller. We'll want bosoms a little more ample. We'll want hips a little more in evidence...
...Chicago's South Side 60 years ago Jacob Portis proved better at raising a family than at selling real estate: his eight boys had to sell newspapers. Milton Portis, the eldest (now 62), worked his way through medical school. The two youngest, Bernard and Sidney (now 42 and 45), were put through by their older brothers. Three others, Isadore, Arnold and Theodore, went to work for a hat firm and in 1914 they and the remaining two brothers, Lyon and Henry, set up Portis Brothers Hat Co. They had $23,000 to start with, half borrowed from Dr. Milton...
...only the five hatters but their three doctor brothers, 82-year-old mother and three sisters live within eight blocks of each other. Six of the Portis clan drive Buicks. All have bridge and golf as hobbies. The four who work in the Chicago plant drive there together, arriving sharply at 8:15. Seven of the brothers have two children apiece. One has three. In 25 years they have hardly ever disagreed. Says Henry proudly: "We put business ahead of profits and it worked...