Word: pampered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over back roads to Pennsylvania, hotel rooms were reserved and unreserved in Pittsburgh, and eventually, when they caught up with Candidate Stevenson in New York, the rally for him in Harlem was over. In short, wrote Reporter Matthews in his light-hearted spoof, most of the efficiency and all pamper had been lost on the campaign trail...
...Williams Gable, 37, by lighting up a cigar at a Hollywood soirée and declaiming on the glorious institution of fatherhood. Forgiving Gable for his inability to keep their secret (ETA: next May), Kay chirped: "He certainly went all ham then . . . Besides, he's started to pamper me, and I've never been pampered in my whole life." (Kay once charged that her former husband, the bibulous sugar heir, "Daddy" Adolph B. Spreckels II, beat her with a jeweled slipper.) Someone reminded Kay that she will soon be deluged with baby showers. Said she: "Oh, dear...
Immature U.S. males come to marriage demanding Monroe-built mammas who will pamper and flatter, raise children, keep house while holding down an outside job, make do with last year's girdle, and still stay stacked enough to rank with movie queens...
...money, cost-plus days of World War II, is a "semantic blur." To clear up the blur, Fisher and Chapman list 28 fringe payments, which they define as money costs and employment benefits outside direct wage payments for regular hours. These, ranging from such familiar items as pensions to "pamper extras" such as swimming pools (TIME, Sept. 13), now cost' American business 43? to 44? extra per productive hour. This adds up to a national total exceeding $25 billion...
...Nordine is a fortunate fellow who enjoys double rewards for living a double life. Over national TV hookups, as a smooth-talking pitchman for deodorants, detergents and such (Stopette, Pamper Shampoo, Tunis), he earns, he figures, about $80,000 a year. But Nordine has his real fun and finds his real fans on his own show, which pays him practically nothing...