Word: houseworker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bess Wallace had gone to high school at Independence, Mo., where her family ran a flour mill, lived in quiet prosperity. When she married Harry Truman, they went to live with her widowed mother. In the nation's capital last week Mrs. Truman did the housework in her sunny, five-room apartment, as she had done it back home. Every morning she got up at a little before 7 to get the Vice President's breakfast-always fruit, milk and toast. She had given up trying to find a maid. Almost every evening she cooked supper, sometimes sighing...
Eddy's G.I.s expected little trouble in adjusting themselves to normal living again. They indicated that they were willing to go to any lengths to make their wives happy. Some even promised to help with the housework. Said one G.I. wistfully: "She won't have to pick up after...
...Auden) was a stark, unromanticized look at embattled China. Now this rebellious son of a British lieutenant colonel lives monastically with three other men and eight women in a small house adjoining the alabaster temple of the Vedanta Society of Southern California. He shares his income and the housework with his fellow students, and daily ponders the teachings of his master, Swami Prabhavananda...
...interest your readers to know that the average British woman's life during the war has consisted of working sometimes for twelve hours a day six days a week scrambling for busses and trains, getting meals, housework, laundry, mending, shopping...
...first time in three years, "Situation Wanted" advertisements appeared in the classified columns of the Los Angeles Times. Most of the advertisements were inserted by women, many of whom want housework. (The Chamber of Commerce reported that in the Los Angeles area there had been a net loss of 15,000 factory workers in the past month...