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Business Expense. In Denver, Laundress Velma Dunlap won a divorce after she told the judge that her husband gave her money only once during their marriage, when he forked over $4 so she could advertise for more washing and ironing to take...
Overstaffed. In Chicago, seeking a divorce, Mrs. Marilyn Reilly testified that, after a 99-day honeymoon cruise, her husband Vincent informed her that since he already had a housekeeper, a chauffeur and a laundress, he did not need a wife...
...because their stories differed too widely from women in ordinary life Included are females aged 2 to 90 (little girls' apparent sexual responses were reported by adults), from a wide variety of social, economy, and cultural backgrounds. Sample occupations-acrobat, archeologist, auditor, barmaid, chemist, dentist, dice girl, governess, laundress lawyer, missionary, politician, puppeteer, probation officer, prostitute, riveter, robber, social worker soda jerker, teacher, typist, U.N. delegate, WAC. *Less inhibited were some noted teenagers of the past. Says Kinsey: "Helen was twelve years old when Paris carried her off from Sparta Daphnis was 15 and Chloe was 13. Heloi...
...infancy. He was baptized Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili. His father was a shoemaker, an alcoholic who beat Joseph unmercifully and finally deserted his family. But his mother loved her son. "[Soso] was always a good boy ... I never had to punish him," she said years later. Working as a laundress, she earned enough money to be able to send him to a parish school, later entered him in the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tiflis. Her ambition was to make him a priest...
...private golf range, Eleanor had to play with repainted balls. When it came to servants I really put my foot down. I refused to hire more than one butler, one cook and three maids. What's even worse, Eleanor had only one personal maid and one personal laundress. She got only $17,000 pocket money a year . . . Her clothes were mostly rags stitched together by cut-rate seamstresses like Hattie Carnegie and Valentina . . . She had only 113 pairs of shoes, 41 sweaters, and eleven ratty-looking fur coats. At no time did I ever...