Word: houseworker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sequitur. In Los Angeles, an ad appeared in the Times: "SINGLE expectant mother desires housework or baby sitting. No bachelor considered...
...Adams has a famous actress cherished such a private private life. She and her husband. Stage Manager Manning Gurian. manage to live in midtown Manhattan, not ten blocks off Broadway, as quietly as two deaf theater mice in a kettledrum. They seldom go out, seldom entertain. Julie does the housework when she doesn't have a play, and takes care of the baby, Peter, who is four months old; Manning does a fair share of the cooking. "I'd like to lead a glamorous life," she says, "but it tires me out." As it is, she scarcely drinks...
...apartment, Carpenter crouched in the front bedroom, listening to radio flashes about the manhunt. Unaware of his presence, Diane and Robert played peacefully outside. Helpless and terrified, Stella "just did my housework and cooked dinner and waited for Len." Overhead clattered the helicopter. In the streets, police paced, looking for Carpenter...
...Designer McCardell made a silk dress with a special wartime twist-a long kitchen-dinner dress of tie silk, with apron to match, for women who were forced to be their own maids. When Harper's Bazaar asked her to make something in which women could do their housework and still look smart, Claire obliged with the "Popover," a wraparound, coverall sort of dress in denim that sold for $6.95. Townley sold 75,000 of the first Popover model, and McCardell has had a variation of the Popover in every collection since...
...married pretty Maria Cristina Vilanova, vacationing daughter of a wealthy El Salvador coffee-planting family that bitterly opposed her marriage to a foreign nobody. Arbenz brooded because his aristocratic young wife had to do her own housework and even tint photographs (at $1 each) to eke out his $60-a-month lieutenant's pay. He seethed at social injustices-especially his own-and whetted up a sharp hatred for Ubico, who despised most of his officers and carefully confined them to quarters whenever he left the capital. "You can't imagine what it is like to live under...