Word: household
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been disposed to support them. "I was attracted to Communism," said Krishna Rao, a bank clerk, "because the Reds supported our wage demands and condemned bankers. I participated in meetings where people shouted 'Death to Capitalists,' but I was shocked when I found out that my own household help was shouting 'Death to Exploiters of Toiling Domestic Servants...
...accredited to Buckingham Palace, representatives of the Press Association and Exchange Telegraph wire services. They act as little more than messengers, daily picking up carefully prepared handouts from the Queen's press secretary, Commander Richard Colville. A Scot whose titled family has long served in the royal household, Colville joined the Royal Navy in 1925, served on the royal yacht, was tapped by King George VI in 1947 to be press secretary, asked by Queen Elizabeth II to stay on as court spokesman. Dutifully, the London Times and the Daily Telegraph print his handouts under the royal coat...
...tabloids, whose readers thirst for backstairs gossip, the drab releases are not enough. They thrive on rumors (most of them inaccurate) picked up from various royal employees-and occasionally on eyewitness accounts by those who have left the royal household. On all such journalistic works the palace frowns. Last year, after an ex-valet to the Duke of Edinburgh wrote for the Sunday Pictorial that Philip wears long underwear in the winter, and uses a lotion to retard the thinning of his hair, Press Secretary Colville put his foot down. To the British Press Council went a stern note...
...lawbooks of 40 states still carry strict Fair Trade statutes, the law of the market place has reduced enforcement to an absurdity on appliances, cameras, power tools, electric mixers, phonograph records and dozens of other items. While Fair Trade pricing is still fairly successful on hundreds of other household items (toothpaste, vitamin pills, jewelry), many merchants question the entire system. Fair Trading has defeated its own purpose, in that it brought great prosperity to the discount houses and other price cutters it was designed to outlaw...
With McCoocy's soul up for option, the play must have its bidders: St. Michael, who make a brief but irreproachable entrance in the third act as a bright center-stage light; and Baron Nicholas de Balbus, the devil's advocate who attempts to corrupt the priest and his household. The ensuing battle between darkness and light is garnished with much theatrical hokum as lights go on, clocks stop, and furniture takes to the air. But despite the commotion, the final triumph of Good is a melodramatic inevitability...