Word: household
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...household in the world is more subject to the hot breath of gossip than Britain's House of Windsor. Last week the mongering winds were howling louder around Buckingham Palace than they had since the day of Wallis Warfield Simpson and Edward VIII...
Screams by Tea Time. Whether Parker had quit to protect the royal household, whether the Duke had sacked him, or whether the Queen had done the thing, no one would tell. Whatever the cause, the effect was a national wave of sentiment in favor of Mike Parker reminiscent of the emotional binge touched off two years ago by the unhappy romance of Princess Margaret and divorced commoner (and palace staffer) Peter Townsend. "Why," demanded Lord Beaverbrook's Express, for many years an ardent opponent of palace puritanism, "should a broken marriage be a disqualification for royal service? Until...
...night of July 17, 1918, ostensibly on their way to exile or imprisonment, the mild-mannered Czar of All the Russias, his German-born Empress, their five children, their family doctor, a chambermaid of the royal household, their cook and the Czar's English valet were all herded together in the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg (now Sverdlovsk) and sprayed with Bolshevik gunfire. That much of one of the most brutal murders of modern times has been recorded as fact in all the history books. A vital footnote to the bloody night has remained ever since...
...their campaign to boost savings, U.S. bankers no longer aim their pitch solely at the head of the household, but go after the entire family. The Bank of America scrambles so eagerly after children's accounts that it even sends messengers around to schools to collect the youngsters' pennies, has 1,000,000 children's accounts totaling $25 million. Other banks are learning the same lesson. New York's Dollar Savings Bank has discovered that juvenile savers not only increase its immediate funds but that 75% of them keep their accounts into adulthood. Every banker is doing his best...
...gossip), visit a cross section of homes in 64 markets. When they establish that a family has watched TV that day or the day before, they jog the viewer's memory by displaying a program schedule for the period and asking what was seen before or after normal household activity, e.g., shopping, dishwashing, linked to particular hours of the day. Every tenth interview is checked by a letter to the family from Pulse. For the average half-hour nighttime network program, Pulse gets its rating from some 7,000 interviews, puts together a national rating from its local surveys...