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Word: fribley (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there were less than 30,000,000 families in the U. S., all of which by no means had one servant. Others dug up the fact that there were less than 2,000,000 cooks and servants listed by the 1930 census. The Associated Press quoted Mrs. Wilbur Fribley of Chicago, president of the Housewives League of America: "Does the woman active in business or social service as a lawyer, doctor or artist, who employs a housekeeper, necessarily belong in the leisure class? Men who take that attitude (and most men do) date themselves as thinking of modern housekeeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Old Man's Leisure | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

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