Word: live-in
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...schedule, Baldrige turns down more social invitations than she accepts. Whenever possible she leaves a party at 11-"I have to get my sleep. It's the only way I can keep going." When Tish entertains, it is usually for Saturday or Sunday lunch. The Hollensteiners have a live-in housekeeper, but Tish does practically all the cooking herself...
Today, a New Yorker looking for fulltime, live-in help must compete with as many as 70 other applicants for the same worker. Live-in housekeepers on Long Island frequently get a color TV in their private quarters, use of a car and country club privileges in addition to their pay. In many urban areas, homeowners resort to maid sharing, maid stealing and other unorthodox means of getting help. A Fort Lauderdale couple succeeded in finding a housekeeper only after the husband, an attorney, received a client's domestic as part of a bonus for handling his divorce case...
...beginning a new life and career as a Los Angeles private detective. He drives an unprepossessing yellow Volkswagen convertible and often has to take his two kids along when he's on a stakeout-his ex-wife being much preoccupied with her est-like training and her live-in, est-like trainer. The rest of his family consists of an aunt who once waltzed with Bakunin in Russia, and is too busy to be much help with the kids: she's trying to radicalize her senior citizens' center and attempting to keep Moses ideologically pure in materialistic...
...true comfort is not in her worth on her own, but in her worth buffeted by a dynamic Alan Bates who is mad about her. It is almost as if the moral of the story slaps itself in the face--yes, Erica is independent enough to reject a live-in situation with a man, but she is not really happy until she has a man who wants to live-in with her. It seems somehow as if her laughing proclamation to the mirror, "'Balls' said the queen 'If I had 'em I'd be king"', is just another 20th-century...
Soon she makes Oliver a live-in member of the household. When the puritanical Eve catches wise, she gives notice. But Molly wins Eve back by pleading that she desperately needs her. The need to be needed is an unbroken strand that runs through the play...