Word: household
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary Wallace, and keeps an educated eye open for signs that Congressmen and Senators are doing what his books show they have so often done in the past-talk abstract principles while advocating legislation in the economic interest of their section or class. A few miles from the parental household in Connecticut the younger branch of the Beard historical menage-Daughter Miriam, her husband Dr. Vagts and their precocious eight-year-old son Detlev- live in even greater retirement in a new brick house that has an electric dishwashing machine, but also no radio, no telephone. When Miriam Beard...
...SULLIVAN, of Chelsea-by-the Smell. . . . . . . . . . . . . Part taken by Eustaee P. McGargle A YARD COP . . . . . . . . . . Part taken by a Yard Cop PROFESSOR FREEZY MERMAN, of Harvard, Uncle to Lowella . . . . . Part taken by himself A SECTION MAN . . . . . . . . . . Part taken by a local WPA worker 17 SMALL MEMBERS OF THE SULLIVAN HOUSEHOLD, and ATTENDANTS 3 LARGE SULLIVANS Parts taken by sundry members of the O'Hallahan family CHARLES FRANCIS APTED, of Cambridge . . . . . . . . . . . . Part taken all by himself TWO STUDENT ADVISORS . . . . . Parts taken by Sam Silversmith and George Goldsmith J.V. WONTWEE, friend to Snuffy . . . Part taken by Pete Peewee, Harvard Crew Captain...
...story is that of a great young Shaksperian actor who regains his self-respect by acting like a beast in a household not used to people who speak Elizabethan words over a kippered herring. Satirizing himself with grace, Mr. Howard tries hard to make a crazy Ophelia fall out of love with him, so that she will fall back in love with her fiance. At the same time Mr. Howard is pressed to keep the love of "Joyce," while Eric Blore packs and repacks bags, makes bird noises, and sticks his tongue out at a little girl who knows every...
...doctor's office overlooked Central Park at a height of seventeen elevator seconds from the imitation marble floor. It resembled the attic of a mechanically-and-chemically-inclined household; his secretary had the look of a woman who had taken one look at the attic and refused, on practical grounds to tidy it. The doctor opened his mouth in a smile and pointed out a chair. Assuming that he was offering a seat, the Vagabond sat down. No, the doctor said, I want to know if you can see that chair; this is my own preliminary eyesight test...
...another method, Chaffee has developed apparatus by which the power tube operation can be tested at the ordinary, household, current frequency of 60 cycles, for which electrical measuring instruments are standard and extremely accurate...