Word: houseworkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lobby was crowded, too, with wives and friends of new Labor M.P.s. Many came straight from the bleak mining towns of the north. They gazed in awe at the unfamiliar pageantry. Completely unawed was Violet Attlee, who is still doing her own housework in her spick-&-span Stanmore villa, and has not yet moved into No. 10 Downing Street...
...made many a strange distortion in labor statistics. Thus big, square-jawed T. G. MacGowan, chairman of C.E.D.'s marketing committee, had to weed from the present labor force of 51.3 million the younger workers who will go back to school, the women who will go back to housework, and the overaged slated (rather arbitrarily) for retirement...
...which called Father Sill to found Kent School in an old farmhouse on Connecti cut's Housatonic River in 1906. There, under the Order's supervision, in one of the best of New England's preparatory schools, young boys, rich and poor, do their own housework, pay what they can afford. Some of them used to get to row on one of "Pater" Sill's Henley champion ship crews...
Woman's Place. In Ellensburg, Wash., the Daily Record ran a want ad, "Girl or woman for general housework," under Farm Machinery...
...Just a poor Lithuanian peasant girl from Marienburg," answered his cautious host, bumbling 60-year-old Marshal Boris Sheremetiev, the third most powerful man in Peter the Great's Russia. "Does housework for Mme. Sheremetiev. I drew her when we divided the people...