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...blaze on the pastel blue walls. Trotsky's three secretaries carry pistols, practice target shooting in their spare moments. The Great Exile himself parks a big revolver on his desk as a paper weight whenever he sits down to write. Small, white-haired Mrs. Trotsky goes about her housework packing a Webley .25. Ironically, the immediate benefits of these safeguards for Trotsky, the foe of private property, have gone to the landlords in the vicinity who have upped their rents because the day & night police guard has eliminated robberies in the neighborhood...
Last summer Miss Haynes, a reticent, sturdy little woman who keeps house with a cousin in an Indianapolis apartment (and takes her turn at housework), told the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine about her research. Last week her university announced it to the world at large...
...electric dishwashing machine, but also no radio, no telephone. When Miriam Beard and Alfred Vagts were married, Vagts, who had been a German officer during the War, was a professor in Berlin, where they lived until shortly before Hitler came into power. A good cook who does her own housework, Miriam Beard spent eight years accumulating the amazing mass of facts for A History of the Business Man, had to be goaded into finishing the book by her energetic mother, almost had a nervous breakdown before she completed it. The result is a volume that businessmen could value...
...years old, living alone in an old farmhouse in a little hilltop village in New Hampshire. I'm doing my own cooking and housework, for my beloved wife died in February...
Miss Quis (by Ward Morehouse; Vinton Freedley, producer). Liz Quis (Peggy Wood) is a worn spinster who does housework for most of Fancy Gap's prominent townsfolk, including fiery old Colonel Selby, veteran Indian fighter. The Colonel has a great love for Fancy Gap, hates the other leading citizens' pettiness and rapacity, which he believes to be handicapping the progress of his town. When he dies, knowing that Miss Quis shares his feelings, he leaves her his mansion and his fortune, hoping she will be able to get rid of the undesirables. Armed with a sheaf of damaging...