Word: household
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that will be only the beginning. If Max Sherover has his way, no U.S. household will be complete without his latest invention: the "Readie" (pronounced reedy). This is a gadget to let people read without turning a page. Books will be printed on long tapes, run through a machine. The strips will be adjustable to the reader's normal eye-speed. Maybe even Readies will be too much trouble for lazy readers. If so, Sherover would have a voice ("Why not Lowell Thomas?") fill the room, reading aloud...
...Herzfeld dug for four years in & around the ancient Persian capital (burned by Alexander the Great in 330 B.C.), in 1933 unearthed sculpture believed to be the earliest specimens of art discovered in Asia, found a nearly perfectly preserved Stone Age village containing the earliest known windows, murals and household pottery...
...impressive even than its sky-high size is Lyons' style. Lyons provides everything from buns to banquets (for thousands), with an atmosphere of elegance, and at low prices. The term "nippy", with which Lyons tagged its waitresses after a sprucing-up campaign in 1925, has become a British household word for an efficient, pleasant servant...
...Power Without Glory, a neurotic young man finds that he has just committed a murder. What's more interesting, his respectable working-class family find that they now harbor a murderer. The household sways with all the emotions-incredulity, pity, horror - born of the event; and with more jagged emotions that the event brings to the surface. And always, beyond the emotions that darken the scene, there is the knowledge that in a few hours, a few minutes, a few seconds, there will come a knock on the door...
...woman, who is his father's wife, Miss Amy, proceeds to hit the bluejay with a poker. This proves to be an appropriate introduction to the household. Other inmates are the languid and effeminate Cousin Randolph, Jesus Fever's granddaughter Zoo Fever, and Joel's father, Mr. Sansom, who is mysteriously sick and invisible. Joel begins to think maybe he doesn't exist. But in the evening a red tennis ball bumps down the stairs as if it had a life of its own, and rolls into the parlor. That is how he learns that...