Word: household
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this protection, a single person will pay $36 a year, and the head of a household...
...start in this respect." The Telegraph also retrospectively hailed "the new Ambassador's firm break with the more absurd social conventions of New York society." In Tokyo, meanwhile, Career Diplomat Douglas MacArthur II, bearer of a name that still inspires respect in Japan, rode in an imperial household coach to the royal palace, there presented his papers to his uncle's good friend, Emperor Hirohito...
...violent action or of individual detachment. A stale retired professor (Serebriakov), his young wife (Elena), and the daughter (Sonia), brother (Vanya), and mother of his first wife live cramped lives on a faded Russian estate. A visitor, the overworked local doctor (Astrov) wanders in and out of the household. Sonia loves the doctor, who is unaware of her as a woman. Vanya, who feels oppressed and trapped, shares with the doctor a love for Elena, who is quite miserable with her old and pompous husband. The doctor dreams of forestry and the future, yet sees his education and brightness sinking...
...fact was that there has been a hum of gossip in Britain for years about the Duke's high jinks, particularly at parties given by his bohemian cronies of the Thursday Club, which included Parker. U.S. tabloid correspondents dug up "palace sources" who said that the royal household was disturbed about rip-roaring stag parties at the club, and had dropped Mike Parker so he would not be around to encourage the Duke to go Thursdaying. Other correspondents, however, found sources who said that the real trouble involved parties that were not always stag...
Entraining in Kansas City for three weeks of sunshine on a Florida key, Harry S. Truman, 72, and wife Bess, 71, bore the marks of Missouri mishaps. Bess's broken left ankle was still in a cast after a recent household tumble (TIME, Jan. 14); Harry's scalp was bandaged over a six-stitch wound he got when he slipped on an icy sidewalk outside his home during a dawn workout...