Word: housework
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...leading islander is Colonel Baker, retired and gardening his life away in a country cottage. His bossy wife, who is aware of him only as an irritation, is faithful to her housework and TV, but her real occupation is being a worry-hen about her sons-and there is plenty to worry about...
...dislikes doing housework, "though I know how to do it," now has "a cook, a maid and a girl to serve the table, but they are paid by the state. I used to go out shopping myself, but now I order it and it is delivered...
Hello, you lovely people. I've just had a delightful chat with glamorous actress Mae Tinee at her honeymoon bungalow in rustic San Pedro, which I can't wait to share with you movie fans. Charmingly attired in fuschia velveteen pedal pushers, Mae explained that she had been doing housework. "I love being a homemaker," she crooned in that famous throaty voice. "It makes me feel so homey...
...what they produce, commune members get wages fixed by a ruling committee of party activists. At Sputnik Commune, 260 mess halls have been set up where members are fed free rice. These communal kitchens, plus communal nurseries and "mending brigades," relieve the wives of members from "dull and trivial housework," transform women, too, into all-purpose laborers. (The sole concession made to femininity: pregnant women get a month off work with half pay.) Even the old folks, for whom the commune has established "Happy Homes," are kept busy with scheduled chores, such as feeding the chickens. And in at least...
...threw out his appeal, Witte refused to give up. He filed a twelve-page criminal charge against the inspector (whose name Witte has never been able to learn). And he devised a scheme of revenge. Witte gave up all of his outside income-his tutoring, his wife's housework, his few shares of stock in Royal Dutch Shell. Last week all that he earned was his salary. "Mistakes," proclaimed Witte triumphantly, "are thus impossible. As assistant bookkeeper, I figure out the wage tax myself." No generous tax collector will punish him again...