Word: housedress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nothing Lah-de-dah. Above all there were the Kettles, Tobacco Readers who mismanaged a fertile farm and spent most of their time borrowing from the neighbors. Maw Kettle was a mountainously fat woman in a very dirty housedress. When Author MacDonald visited the Kettles, Maw shouted at the dogs to "stop that goddamn noise." Then she hospitably kicked a path through the dog bones and chicken manure. Author MacDonald staggered; her nose had been dealt "a stinging blow by the outhouse lurking doorless and unlovely" near the porch. Once she ventured to wonder why the Kettles...
Fighting for the return of the $2 shirt and the 98? cotton housedress, Chester Bowles last week led his Office of Price Administration into another skirmish. He ordered some 309,000 retailers' mark-up of clothing and some household furnishings prices frozen at March 19 levels...