Word: household
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Around Money. Short told how he had helped Mickey think of a new name for Marguerite Cordova, a Puerto Rican hat-check girl who wanted Mickey to be her pimp. They decided on "Marie Corday," since Cordova "sounded too Spanish for the upper crust." Pat Thompson paid all his household bills, Short explained, and gave him $300 a week "walking-around money." Didn't that amount to male prostitution? asked Assistant District Attorney Anthony Liebler. "Well," snorted Short, "I'm a pretty good cook...
Reasonably dispassionate guessers figure the royal household plus retainers and courtiers in the neighborhood of 10,000 persons. Whenever the King's own household makes one of its periodic moves from Riyadh to Jeddah or Medina, its central figures are airlifted by the Saudi Arabian government airline, which owns 27 aircraft. A royal move means not only that all scheduled operations are canceled but also that every available aircraft...
...Defense Department spends $250 million a year moving household goods of military personnel back and forth across the seas. It would cost much less, said the commission, to provide basic household goods overseas...
Pritchett that she is "the most original novelist now writing in English." Author Compton-Buinett is old-fashioned only in the sense that she writes out of a past in which the center of life is still the big family household-including servants, "companions." nurseries, long corridors, enormous rooms. But her characters are no more untrue to life for this than Oedipus would be for driving around in an automobile instead of a chariot. In Mother & Son, middle-aged Rosebery is in just the same fix as Oedipus: he cannot escape from life with mother. Aged Miranda is seeking...
...dull drill calls of middle-class life. Novelist Hallinan's Pan is a fat, wheezing, believable genius named Jubial Kerr who huffs and puffs rude reality into Rough Winds of May. To the world at large, he is J. K., England's greatest painter. To the Kerr household, he is Fatuncle, a lifelong, irresponsible nuisance who only comes around to cadge money and food. When his 16-year-old niece Celia goes to pose for him, she meets a double man who divides and finally conquers her loyalties. On one of his Olympian binges, or gnawing a chicken...