Word: household
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bellied, hand-to-mouth feeling of having no money for tomorrow; the smell of wood smoke that hangs over Southern shantytowns?romantic to the suburbanite, but symptomatic of scant heat and pinchgut rations to the poor; the bags of flour delivered by a well-meaning welfare agency, in a household that has no oven; the pervasive odor of human urine and rat droppings in perennially damp walk-ups; the bite of wind or snow through a wall of rotten bricks and no hope that the landlord will repair the crack. Poverty is the certainty of being gouged?particularly...
...Millionaire Felix Mechoulam. Country life for the royal family has had its drawbacks. The dearth of servants is particularly perturbing. The royal court has been trimmed to three, a lady-in-waiting for the Queen and the two business aides for the King. On Saturday afternoons and Sundays, the household help are off, and the family often go to the nearby Olgiata Club for dinner. Other nights they are apt to seek out one of Rome's simple trattorias...
Marshmallow Bogs. Eminent Victorians was a light at the end of a tunnel for its author too. The eleventh of 13 children of a Victorian soldier-scientist, Lytton Strachey grew up as the most squirrelly member of a pandemoniously eccentric household. The grotesque English public school system did little for him except inspire the literary decapitation, in Eminent Victorians, of Dr. Thomas Arnold, the spartan Christian of Rugby. By the time Lytton reached Cambridge in 1899, he was a distinct oddity-a gangly, shrill-voiced, germ-ridden, manic-depressive esthete, caustic as lye except when caught in the eternally adolescent...
...wash their clothes with Woolite, to battle their bugs with Black Flag, to treat their ills with Dristan, Anacin and Bi-So-Dol, to keep their cool with Equanil? Even the most ardent shoppers might be hard put to answer because for all the effort it puts into making household names of its more than 90 brands, American Home Products Corp. cares little about plugging its own corporate identity...
Most of the Scholars will receive part-time fellowships ranging from $500 to $3000; some will receive full-time fellowships of up to $10,000. The fellowship money may be used to pay for services such as babysitting, household help, and transportation, as well as for professional expenses...