Word: houseworkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...point illustrates my statement that she attempts to keep the 18th Century traditions alive in these times which can hardy be called similar. She stands for drinking tea gracefully-I suppose with the pinky raised. Tell Emily I stand for more drooling, less fancy "etiquette," and less housework...
Kansans had thought that Democrat Harry Woodring was finished with public life when Franklin Roosevelt fired him in 1941. He went home to Topeka, lived quietly, invested in a soft-drink company, got a jeep agency. He tatted expertly, joyfully did the housework during the maid shortage, attended antique auctions, where he bid fiercely in competition with society matrons. One night a week he played bridge with Alf Landon and two other Republicans. This summer's polio epidemic dealt him a cruel blow-two of his three children contracted the disease; son Marcus, 12, died, daughter Melissa, 11, recovered...
Princess Elizabeth, as profiled by a friend recently turned journalist, looked more than ever like a pretty, highly eligible London girl of 20. She likes dancing, housework (especially washing-up), Errol Flynn, pink, the historical novels of Daphne du Maurier, medium-high heels, jazz (on a constantly playing bedroom radio), ginger beer (better than wine or liquor), hats. She is good at ballroom chatter; hasn't a car, but sometimes borrows father's; hands down dresses to sister Margaret Rose; takes it for granted that she will some day marry and have children. And she can cook...
...island's economy is still dominated by the strapping, glowingly colored Hahnyuh (sea women) who dive for pearls in two-piece bathing suits and goggles. Most men spend their days smoking, gossiping, doing housework. But others, getting dangerous modern ideas, have started working on farms and have muscled in on the local government. The boldest males have even dared insist on wifely fidelity...
...judged the Typical American Housewife by a national research organization. Outlines of the Typical American Housewife: she is 28, a solid. ly built brunette, the wife of a sailor, has a six-year-old daughter and a four-year-old son, does all the housework for an eight-room house (where her father-in-law lives), goes shopping every other morning, likes to cook, doesn't like quick-frozen foods, won't use corn syrup to stretch sugar recipes, serves the day's big meal at 5 p.m., and, up to last week, had never been...