Word: melina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suspicious women would watch to see whether I picked a home with a Deepfreeze, mangle, maid and easy appliances, so I didn't." He chose the home of Mrs. Norman Dion, 31, wife of a lieutenant commander in the Coast Guard, and mother of Susan, 4, Sally, 3, Melina, 20 months, and Ned, 6 months...
...Running a house and taking care of four children takes about the same amount of stamina and nervous energy as jerking sodas." When children get out of bounds, Krauss counseled readers, spank them. (With their parents' consent, he did.) A few things went awry, e.g., little Melina sprayed milk over the windows Krauss had just washed, but he fed the family, bathed the baby, made the beds, did laundry and read fairy tales to the children. Reported Mrs. Dion by phone to the city desk: "He did last the entire day, and there was no blood...
...fourth day, desperation crept into the column: "First thing this morning, the John in the kids' bathroom got stopped up. Everybody had to use Mommy's and Daddy's. This is like rerouting rush-hour traffic over a goat path." Baby Ned had developed diaper rash, Melina was running a slight temperature. Sally would not eat her oatmeal, and it had looked like rain; so the wash had to be hung in the garage. Admitted the columnist: "My efficiency rating took a nose dive. I failed to get dinner started. I got the kids to bed fifteen...