Word: household
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Father Turgenev was a landowner who spent his life chasing women; he kept out of the home and let his wife "do anything she liked." What she liked, according to Magarshack, was to make her household resemble the Czarist government as closely as possible. She gave her serfs court titles: "Maid of Honor," "Court Chamberlain." When her family physician came to treat her little adopted daughter, he was told: "Remember! If you don't cure her . . . Siberia!" Mother Turgenev discouraged marriage among her serfs because she liked their undivided attention for herself, so her women bore illegitimate children instead...
...Norman chateau, Falaise, overlooking Long Island Sound. Her husband built it as a showplace in 1923, imported bricks from Belgium, hand-carved doors from Italy and Spain, and filled it with, a museum-like array of fine statues, paintings, tapestries, chandeliers and silver. Publisher Patterson is too busy for household affairs, lets her secretary and servants manage Falaise. Evenings, she and her husband often entertain such close friends as Broadway Producer George Abbott (who boards her ferocious bull terrier, Butcher Boy, because Harry Guggenheim will not allow him in the house), Lieut. General Jimmy Doolittle, Katharine Cornell and her husband...
...Tuesday morning Vargas summoned his Cabinet; members of his household joined in a last, three-hour conference. Vargas agreed to step down. He accepted a theoretically face-saving solution: a leave of absence, with Vice President Cafe Filho taking over his office. Then, rising slowly from his chair, he bowed and said: "Goodnight, gentlemen...
...worst time of all came when Runyon worked on one of his gay little stories. He was an agony writer, suffering torment over every painfully minted wisecrack. The household suffered with him, paralyzed into a dread silence...
Fast Turnover. In Sturgis, Mich., as Mr. and Mrs. Victor Kosloski were signing the papers insuring their household goods, Insurance Agent Fred Rahn dropped his cigarette, set their couch on fire...