Word: household
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ecole Polytechnique and the Sorbonne in his native France were the sources of LeCorbeiller's own general education. A worker in the French Ministry of Communications, he came to this country in 1941 to set up his Shepard Street household, which includes Mrs. L. who audits her husband's GE course and son Jean a College undergraduate...
...women's current grievances, such as they were, were technological rather than political. Chief villain was the household chore. Cried Laundry Worker Amy Ballinger: "What about the man who buys you an icebox or a sweeper as a gift? A man marries you and says 'You go down in the cellar and do the washing.' The hell with him." Piped Edith M. Stern, a magazine writer: "The mechanical gadgets are just the old-fashioned spinning wheel in modern dress...
Benjy and Peter Pears (for whom he wrote the leading tenor role of Grimes) arrived in the U.S. in 1939, moved in with Auden, in an arty household at 7 Mid-dagh Street in Brooklyn. It was a ramshackle, remodeled four-story brownstone whose architecture had fascinated Auden and his friends: from the street it looked something like a Swiss chalet. It was there that Negro Author Richard Wright later wrote Black Boy, and Novelist Carson Me Cullers wrote Reflections in a Golden Eye. Composer Paul Bowles worked at his Mexican ballet on the parlor piano (until Benjy quietly asked...
...household chanted their leader's favorite Hindu song: "Dress yourself in rich attire, befitting the occasion, because you are now to go to your beloved's haven. You will have to lie on the bare earth, cover yourself with dust and ultimately become one with the dust. Have your bath and dress properly. Remember you are not to come back from where you are going...
...They called the germ-killing substance a phytoncide (meaning: a killer derived from plants). Now Food Chemist Edward F. Kohman has found that the active chemical agent in onions is a thioaldehyde, a close relative of the common antiseptic, formaldehyde. Chemist Kohman put raw onions through an ordinary household meat grinder, distilled the onion vapors, put them through a series of chemical tests. In a recent issue of Science, he reported finding about 1/20 of a gram of thioaldehyde in a pound of raw onions...