Word: houseworker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only two who married for love, and it was-as charmingly seen through a child's eyes-a beautiful marriage. But daddy was hooked by the diamond fever, and no amount of hard work helped because he never found enough diamonds. Helena spent long hours at housework when she should have been doing her schoolwork, and mamma tried all sorts of ways of making money (selling pastries, vegetables, etc.), always with disastrous luck...
...tall (5 ft. 11½ in.),, witty free-lance writer (Harper's Bazaar, New York Times) and playwright (Touch and Go, King of Hearts) who writes mostly in her green Chevy-a sort of mobile workshop that she parks on side roads near her Larchmont home "to escape housework, interruptions from the kids and television." But last week Writer Kerr had to do her writing at home-before the TV-because she had been asked to take vacationing Critic John Crosby's caustic TV corner in the New York Herald Tribune (for which her husband, Walter Kerr...
...were made to order for Breuer, who feels the hillside house can ideally combine both the snug, down-to-earth feeling, where the building is anchored to the upper slope, with a soaring, cantilevered view out over the landscape. Because his client planned to do her own cooking and housework, liked to entertain frequently, he laid out the house area in well-defined zones, separating the sleeping and children's quarters from the living and dining rooms, paid particular attention to timesaving housekeeping details, e.g., a handy pass-through between kitchen and dining room...
...tips," Duke recalls. "Every day we'd go play pool until we made $2. With $2 we'd get a pair of 75? steaks, beer for a quarter, and have a quarter left for tomorrow." He did his own housework, including mending and pressing his tailor-made suits, always impeccably kept. Periodically, there was work for his five-man combo-Arthur Whetsel on trumpet, Otto Hardwick on bass and alto, Sonny Greer on drums and Elmer Snowden on banjo-but the real break came in 1927. "You know, I'm lucky," says Duke. "I'm lucky...
...long discussions at home, the Secretary's wife once got him to publicize milk-dispensing machines to help relieve the dairy-product surplus. Flora Benson attends many of his press conferences, and occasionally finds time from her duties at home (she has no maid, does her own housework) to make a speech. In Toledo last week for a speech at a Republican women's meeting, she said: "I've enjoyed working on a farm with my husband. I've cooked for threshers and we've gone through what the farmers are going through today." Asked...