Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prepared Hostess will instantly reply (preferably with an imperceptible flutter of the eyelashes): "Yes. but Bartok scores the gaps. That's the difference." This will immediately show the guests that she is the sort of person who knows about hollyhocks, and almost guarantee that the guests will hurry home to hunt up their copy of this week's TIME, flip quickly to NATIONAL AFFAIRS, and read Fried Shoes...
...cataracts; his eyesight has not really returned. Last fortnight he returned from a Foreign Relations Committee hearing, complained that he had been unable to hear the testimony; his staff discovered that he simply had not had his hearing aid turned up far enough. Last week Green's home-town Providence Journal sorrowfully made an editorial suggestion: "The time has come to say frankly that Senator Green can perform a final and unique service by stepping down as chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations." Even as the suggestion was advanced, Teddy Green was in the process of drafting...
...antisuffrage contingents argued as usual that "woman's place is in the-home," ignoring the fact that 46% of Swiss women go out to work, implied that the "mess" clearly visible in other democratic countries was "partly due" to women's suffrage. They did not get too excited, knowing that the male votes alone would decide the issue. Half an hour after the polls closed, the Swiss could dial 168 on their efficient "telephone system and learn that women's suffrage had been defeated by a two-to-one vote...
...damp midday gloom of London's worst fog in seven years, prostitutes were dimly visible as they patrolled their familiar stations in Soho, Piccadilly and Paddington. The chilling smog also seeped through tightly closed windows into the House of Commons, where Home Secretary R. A. ("Rab") Butler was opening the second reading of the Street Offences Bill, aimed at clearing those same girls off the sidewalks of London...
...opening of Squaw Valley Lodge on Thanksgiving Day, 1949, was a memorable fiasco. Cushing had to hire strikebreakers when his union workmen struck the week of the opening, hooked up plumbing himself. Justine hurriedly summoned the domestic couple from their New York home, pressed a friend into service as a chambermaid. One woman guest arrived early, found Cushing still at work on the plumbing. Snarled Alec: "Madam, come back in three hours, and we'll be ready. Meanwhile, don't bother me." That night everything went wrong. There was no dinner until 10. Only one toilet was working...