Word: houseworkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past years, students at Jacob's Pillow had rubbed elbows in an intimate rural way (over dishes and housework) with such greats of the dance as Martha Graham, Alexandra Danilova, Founder Ted Shawn. This year they got a close-up look at another of the foremost U.S. dancers and teachers. Charles Weidman's name was not so well known to the U.S. as some with less talent. Sol Hurok had never ballyhooed him-but the experts will let him dance in their all-America team any time...
Saragat: "My wife and daughter did all the housework." Terracini (indignant): "But you see, there are five of us-myself, my wife and our three Siamese cats...
...Michigan, the Supreme Court decreed that women may not be employed as bartenders. In Cincinnati, the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that husbands cannot deduct from their income tax any sums paid to their wives for housework...
...have brushed and combed it herself, and not as if it were her habit to have a permanent after every cigaret. She gets along . . . nicely . . . without mink coats, a swan bed, a custom-built Cadillac, a costly and always unspotted negligee in which to help her butler do the housework. . . . This willingness to keep its expenses scaled to life's facts rather than its fantasies is ... what distinguishes the entire movie...
Before they took office, Gandhi had counseled the ministers on domestic conduct: do not keep a large retinue of servants; make women do housework; "I am sure that no leader will hesitate to clean his own lavatory." Now he questioned each minister closely about the workings of his department, and made practical suggestions to which his spiritual authority gave the weight of a military command. One minister reported that the Mahatma "is keen for industrial progress...