Word: housework
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Saragat: "My wife and daughter did all the housework." Terracini (indignant): "But you see, there are five of us-myself, my wife and our three Siamese cats...
...Michigan, the Supreme Court decreed that women may not be employed as bartenders. In Cincinnati, the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that husbands cannot deduct from their income tax any sums paid to their wives for housework...
...have brushed and combed it herself, and not as if it were her habit to have a permanent after every cigaret. She gets along . . . nicely . . . without mink coats, a swan bed, a custom-built Cadillac, a costly and always unspotted negligee in which to help her butler do the housework. . . . This willingness to keep its expenses scaled to life's facts rather than its fantasies is ... what distinguishes the entire movie...
Before they took office, Gandhi had counseled the ministers on domestic conduct: do not keep a large retinue of servants; make women do housework; "I am sure that no leader will hesitate to clean his own lavatory." Now he questioned each minister closely about the workings of his department, and made practical suggestions to which his spiritual authority gave the weight of a military command. One minister reported that the Mahatma "is keen for industrial progress...
Kansans had thought that Democrat Harry Woodring was finished with public life when Franklin Roosevelt fired him in 1941. He went home to Topeka, lived quietly, invested in a soft-drink company, got a jeep agency. He tatted expertly, joyfully did the housework during the maid shortage, attended antique auctions, where he bid fiercely in competition with society matrons. One night a week he played bridge with Alf Landon and two other Republicans. This summer's polio epidemic dealt him a cruel blow-two of his three children contracted the disease; son Marcus, 12, died, daughter Melissa, 11, recovered...