Word: playroom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...kitchen, a masterpiece of compact efficiency, was separated from the dining alcove only by a shelf unit with sliding doors through which food and conversation could flow freely. The kitchen also had a clear view of the children's playroom and the play yard beyond. There was no doubt about the convenience of this detail in a home with small children, as long as the children stayed...
...commission never misses a chance to communicate the news that our educational institutions are far too intellectual. This will certainly surprise the students, parents, teachers, administrators who have had anything to do with our educational system. To the disinterested observer, the American educational system looks like a gigantic playroom, designed to keep the young out of worse places until they can go to work." ¶ "The problem of higher education in America is not the problem of quantity. Whatever our shortcomings in this regard, we have a higher proportion of our young people in higher education than any country...
...store Heiress Barbara Hutton: the Georgian-Colonial-style pile she built in Regent's Park ten years ago. (". . . thoughtful of you," wrote Harry Truman to Heiress Hutton.) With it went 14 acres of lawn and garden. Among the conveniences: an indoor swimming pool, a gym, a servants' playroom, gold-plated bathroom taps, a nursery with two toilets...
When she was six, her beautiful, austere, mysterious mother bought her no dresses in one purchase. Biquette spent four miserable years wearing them out. At Christmas her playroom was so filled with toys there was no place to play. She got a trunk full of doll clothes, a hatbox full of bonnets, enough candy to give her indigestion for six months...
...marry British Commoner Ida Lupino, his mother drop's and breaks a cherished teacup. They marry anyhow, and by the time the Nazis invade Poland the wife has turned her idle husband into a man, his estate into a solvent farm, his ancestral home into a one-night playroom for the peasants-who are delighted to have become sharecroppers. A reactionary uncle, on the contrary, shows his hand as an appeaser...