Word: helpmeets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Churches that will be published in full next fall. Editorialized last week's Christian Century: In the old American view, the parson was "the representative 'person' of the community, partaking of its representative lot-economically as well as otherwise. The lady of the manse, as helpmeet to her husband, was a sort of stewardess of the steward of the mysteries of God; she raised children as olive plants at his side...
Invitation. In Memphis, the Commercial Appeal carried this classified ad: "Café must be sacrificed . . . Owner has ulcerated stomach. Must sell at once . . ." Helpmeet. In Chicago, when his estranged wife charged him with desertion and sued for separate maintenance, George Layton, 71, told the court that she had plenty of money, got a court order requiring her to pay him $25 a week...
...Helpmeet. In Lakewood, Ohio, after G. V. Harris telephoned his vacationing wife that she had taken the mailbox key with her, she obligingly mailed it back...