Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women's current grievances, such as they were, were technological rather than political. Chief villain was the household chore. Cried Laundry Worker Amy Ballinger: "What about the man who buys you an icebox or a sweeper as a gift? A man marries you and says 'You go down in the cellar and do the washing.' The hell with him." Piped Edith M. Stern, a magazine writer: "The mechanical gadgets are just the old-fashioned spinning wheel in modern dress...
...born (1818) in the ancient archbishopric of Trier. From his ancestry (which included generations of rabbis and Talmudic scholars) he undoubtedly inherited his gift for subtle and untiring disputation. When Karl was six Father Hirschel Marx, a lawyer, took the family to be baptized in the Protestant Church. Karl became an evangelical atheist...
...middle of the nineteenth century was an era in which men demanded "practical" results from science, and it was with this in mind that Abbott. Lawrence grandfather of President Lowell, gave $50,000 to the University for a graduate school of science. This was the largest single gift ever donated by an individual to an American institution of learning up to that time...
Poindexter was married Sunday and both he and his wife are looking forward to a Durgin-Park steak dinner with Professor Prosser's gift, but Poindexter still wants his original $5 back and plans to file a declaration of his injury next Saturday in the Cambridge courthouse...
...Poindexter plans to drop a "thank-you" note in the mail for Professor Prosser, "who was a very thoughtful man to make us a wedding gift," and Mr. Poindexter has decided to spread his time between thinking up an appropriate image of Prosser to garnish his mantelpiece and deciding just what to do with another fiver that came his way last night...