Word: houseworker
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last week cleaned up an old powder-room joke to drive home an advertising point. In an ad in the New York Times for such labor-saving gimmicks as toasters and electric juicers, it showed a housewife stretched out in an armchair enjoying a television show. Advised Gimbels: "When housework is inevitable, relax and enjoy...
Harry Truman, with no such backlog, was having a hard time breaking even. The Government pays the White House staff and servants, but does not feed them. Bess Truman tried cutting the staff (which runs between 25 and 30), gave up because the housework didn't get done. Feeding the help, plus the family and friends, meant that Truman must pay for about 2,000 meals a month. In the Roosevelt era the monthly food bill sometimes soared to $7,000; Bess Truman has cut it to about $2,000. On quiet nights with the family, Harry Truman often...
...weeks ago the Zimmermans danced together for the first time. Doctors gave Helen more good news: it would be safe now for her to have children. She could also do the housework and walk up stairs. Last week she was so well that her husband felt it was all right to leave her for a few days and go on a hunting trip...
...television baby sitter called Du Mont Kindergarten at 8:30 a.m. This features a young woman named Pat Meikle, who tries to keep small fry pinned to their chairs with 30 minutes of fairy tales, alphabet instruction and handicrafts. The idea is to let mothers get on with their housework. Response has been so favorable that the program may be expanded to an hour...
...fiction editor of the New Yorker, he can make a room, a house, a whole town come to life without raising his voice. Nothing happens in Time Will Darken It that small-town readers won't immediately recognize as next-door truth, but what does happen (gossip, housework, dinner parties, childbearing) is conveyed sensitively, in clean and restrained prose. Time Will Darken It is often too loosely constructed, frequently lingers with characters who don't help the story along, but it weighs with considerable accuracy and tenderness the half-articulated impulses of disenchanted people who believe, with Author...