Word: household
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princess at the Window. For the first time since 1938, Parliament was opened with full-dress ceremonial. Red robes trimmed with white fur, cutaways, top hats and striped trousers were taken out of mothballs or rented at high prices. The Household Cavalry who would escort the royal coach got ready to don their plumed helmets and breastplates, white breeches, high black boots, red and blue tunics. The Imperial State Crown was taken from...
...mother was kind in a very strict way and every inch a lady. In the Oppenheimer household, it was possible to think something rude, harsh or improper, but never possible to say it. "My life as a child," Robert recalls, "did not prepare me in any way for the fact that there are cruel and bitter things." He remembers himself unfondly as "an unctuous, repulsively good little boy." The trouble, he thinks, was that his home offered him "no normal, healthy way to be a bastard...
...main, however, Life With Mother, like Life With Father, is the broadly painted picture of a man and a marriage, the chronicle of a household and record of a class. Here again a rambunctious blusterer of Manhattan's horsecar era wages endless battle and suffers constant defeat, chiefly at the hands of a wife who flutters helplessly with cunning. Here again are growing boys and departing servants, the wall phones and other period touches, the breakfast tables and other permanent realities, of well-heeled bourgeois life...
...successful motion-picture experiment on a relatively "home-made" basis. Perhaps other artists of this caliber will now turn towards the cinema and exploit some of its possibilities after witnessing this independent achievement. Mr. Richter's "Dreams That Money Can Buy" should delight anyone with even a smattering of Household Freud...
...popular conception of the legend doesn't seem to have been tampered with except for the introduction of a dwarf into the ill-fated household. He is about the most repulsive creature imaginable, addicted to listening at keyholes and cutting up flies. It seems a weakness on Cocteau's part to have chosen a freak to personify the evil in the world. But perhaps the choice does not spring so much from Cocteau's philosophy as from a mere theatrical whim. It is just such flaws, and not his experimental miscarriages, which keep Cocteau from getting one of out Genuine...