Word: housework
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...with well-tailored, socially presentable people. Group members counter by telling how they "changed" (converted) an old Pennsylvania bootlegger called "Bill Pickle"; how in London Group workers live in slum quarters; how a poor little girl was changed, telling her mother that God wanted her to help with the housework...
...triangle. The variations on the theme are original in the highest degree, in fact there is at one point some uncertainty as to whether Miss Tobin or Mr. Young is taking the female corner of the situation. The latter's excessive skill at basting a ham and doing the housework while his wife works at the office, casts a shadow over his little menage which threatens to darken it forever. However, by devious remedies, his cuckolding is averted and his manliness reaffirmed in the end. Genevieve Tobin, as the lovely woman who stooped to what she thought was folly...
...been working outside of the home in the past few years, giving their menfolk more money for themselves. Now through the depression these women have been thrown out of work, so of course she is a parasite. The other type who has had a half a dozen children, doing housework, painting, paperhanging and all the jobs her husband should have been doing. Being tied down to a family does not include golfing, night life or pretty clothes. Johnnie or Lucy needs shoes or medicine. The man of today has an idea that a certain amount of money thrown...
...cannot keep Mrs. Hope from buying on credit everything she fancies, blackmailing the maid out of back wages, formulating grandiose schemes for selling "her poor little home" to an unborn literary club. With a pleasantly insane gleam in her eyes, she falls out with everyone, instantly makes up does housework in a white satin ball gown, frequently retires to her bedroom and communicates with her children on postal cards carried by the maid. An amiable rich Jew. whom she thinks "so Oriental." finally appears to solve her difficulties...
...Hoefflich of Houston, president of the Associated Anesthetists of the U. S. and Canada, tried the Meyer treatment on his mother, 82. Reported he last week: "The growth has greatly decreased in size and the pain is gone. In fact, my mother has been doing much of her own housework...