Word: household
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation has no soap, but soap opera without end or sense floods each household daily...
There, as refugees, come Willy Wiede-meyer, old friend of Adolf Hitler, and his wife and daughters. Fat Willy, a character who is in some ways a dead ringer for "Putzi" Hanfstaengl, plans to sell his inside story of the Hitler household to the U.S. occupation authorities. Price: immunity for himself and family. But Willy falls into the hands of a cynical U.S. war correspondent posing as a captain, who wants the story but has no power to save Willy. Worse, a gang of fanatical SS men, still at large, moves into the valley and goes gunning for Willy...
...himself to his poetry in Hampstead, in Leigh Hunt's cottage, where young Keats was a fellow visitor, and in Geneva, where the glamorous Lord Byron was a neighbor. The Napoleonic Wars were over; the long golden age of travel on the Continent had begun. Shelley's household abroad included not only Mary, whom he married, but her sister, Claire Claremont, one of Byron's cast-off mistresses. His scandalous behavior shocked London, and he never returned to the city after 1818, later writing stanzas beginning "Hell is a city much like London...
...serve to a guest the best dinner they have had in weeks-soup with meat and noodles, a dish of chickpeas, cabbage and sausage, with an orange for dessert. To buy that meal for four people, he had to spend $2.28 on the black market. And in his household, where two people work, the combined income...
...accommodating to autograph seekers. Said he: "We can't lay any more eggs. Now we play a pulsating melodic throb. People's ears today are in tune to great harmonic things. Our music has to be built into institutional proportions. The band has to become a household word...