Word: household
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Mac & Smith. Inside Buckingham Palace, the royal household pulsated with hundreds of last-minute tasks. Breakfast had to be cooked and silver tea trays arranged for 70 extra royal relatives-more house guests than had slept there in 42 years. The Queen arose at 7:30 and kneeled briefly to pray. Her tea tray was brought in the same as everyday, except for a small bouquet of fresh flowers and a note: "With every possible good wish today and always. From Mac and Smith"-her personal maids. For the moment, the handmaidens ruled the Queen. Her beauty expert applied...
...trip was also a matter of pride with the trustees, conductors and musicians: the name of Serge Koussevitzky, who was the Boston's director for 25 years, was a household word across the U.S. Since his departure in 1949, they felt that the orchestra had to prove itself all over again...
Another exclusive is that each family burns all trash except metal. Therefore, while we do not have the dirt from as many factories as New York or Chicago, we get some from each household practically every day. We also try to keep up with the big cities in another way. We are still using coal furnaces in large numbers - even in new homes. Every little bit helps . . . Before awarding any trophies to New York or Chicago, do visit us during the heat of July or August...
...Tommy Gonne of Donnybrook, a colonel in the British army. She had been born (of an English mother, who died in her childhood) within cannon shot of Aldershot, and privately educated in France by a governess with Republican views. At 16, she was head of her father's household in Dublin, where he was Assistant Adjutant General. She was presented in 1881 at the viceregal court, and she "danced with the Duke of Clarence, who trod excruciatingly on my satin-slippered toes." Visiting a great Irish country house a few months later, she saw Irish peasants being evicted...