Word: household
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a Mission. In Manhattan, Dag Hammarskjold lives in an eight-room apartment on Park Avenue at 73rd Street. He furnished it himself, simply but well, as befits a man who earns $20,000 a year, tax free, and gets another tax-free $35,000 for expenses. His household consists of a Swedish butler, a Swedish housekeeper, a Norwegian secretary and an American chauffeur who drives him to the U.N. building five days a week, and to his 80-acre estate in New York State on weekends. Hammarskjold is the most eligible bachelor in New York, but he keeps himself...
Wrestling. Jim's mother was a heavyset, masculine woman who ran the household, even to repairing the plumbing; his father was a light-boned, slightly effeminate weakling who talked in a high-pitched voice. Jim's older brother was a perfectly normal, completely masculine boy whom Jim worshiped. When Jim was born, his mother wanted a girl, kept him in dresses and let his hair grow until he was four, later taught him to do girls' household chores. As Jim grew up. he learned to please his mother by playing her game, wore her clothes around...
...days of old, the King's whim formed the country's reward: he gave to favored friends a forest, a few hundred serfs and an earldom. The very titles of prized orders (e.g., Knights of the Garter) reflected the cozy household nature of it all. Last week Queen Elizabeth published her Birthday Honors List, rewarding 2,000 British and Commonwealth subjects, but the choice was largely the concern of her elected ministers, who operate on the principle that what is good for the nation is good for the Queen's list. Only in the arts...
...President Cleveland's White House maintenance cost $12,500, but many another household budget has also soared in 70 years. When the House Appropriations Committee last week approved next year's Executive Mansion budget (the same as this year's), the figures disclosed much more than the sightseers see of where the money goes...
Furniture and household appliances will be bought by 28.5% of the public, v. 26.9% in 1954, but they plan to spend $50 less than last year's outlay. More consumers plan to buy on credit. This year, the FRB reported, 60% of the car purchasers expect to buy on time, v. 56% a year ago, and 54% of the prospective household-goods purchasers expect to use credit...