Word: householders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bossy" Gillis strewed his vacant lot with tombstones and household crockery labelled: "The Spirit of Newburyport." He called on Mayor Mike Cashman, punched his jaw and spent two months in jail denouncing "the fossils that run this burg...
Born in a poor stone hut, there is now no palace that the native peasant girl of the Romagna might not enter. She has been a toiler in the fields, a gatherer of grapes, a shepherdess, a household servant, even a tavern tap-wench. Today, by a pretty pirouette of Fate, she is the consort of a man on whom Italy has bestowed the Collar of the Annunziata. He who wears that supreme badge and his wedded wife are both legally "cousins of the king...
...suicide incidence to publicity - sorry I haven't the references. THOMAS C. MCVEAGH, M.D. Honolulu, Hawaii. No circumlocution would change the fact that the crippled boy committed suicide, nor deter a weak-willed person from suicide. Specific mention of "a bathroom germicide" warns housekeepers to keep their household poisons in well-locked cupboards...
Lord Dawson of Penn, personal physician to the British Royal Household and to Edward of Wales,* last week testified that birth control was an excellent thing. Said he: "To ask this generation to go back to the helter-skelter method of having families is like crying for the moon." He could find no evidence of physical or moral harm from the practice of birth control, nor did he have any respect for "gloomy forebodings as to the break-up of family life...
...attended-housewives of all grades, good ones who wished to excel, doubtful ones who wished to pass muster. They heard lectures in the New York City Town Hall (capacity 1,500). Miss Florence Brobeck supervised the cooks & housewives. She it is who prints each Sunday good advice on recipes, household appliances, marketing information, dietetics & child feeding, decorating & furnishing, restaurant service, etc., etc. She is chief of the famed Herald-Tribune Institute. Five years ago she received each week at least 75 requests or information. Now she receives at least 1,000 such...