Word: sitter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while rummaging with her teen-aged daughter in the attic, Jeanne Grain, a 34-year-old mother, runs across an ancient phonograph record (Rudy Vallee's My Time Is Your Time) and a quaint old snapshot of something called a flagpole sitter. In heaven's name, mother (gasps the bobby-soxer), what was life like back in those funny, faraway times? Most of Margie is mother's flashback, Technicolor-and-music reminiscences...
Poles Apart. In Grand Rapids, after 22 days on high, flagpole sitter Marshall Jacobs climbed down from his perch several weeks ahead of schedule, explained that he wanted to talk to his bride, had been unable to get a phone...
Jarvis Court has solved a number of problems. It's a home, and it's a community. "It may sound corny," a young wife confessed, "but we had a song-fest here the other night." There is no "sitter" problem: a roster for "night watch" has been posted, each couple taking a turn...
...original demands down to a 44-hour week, stuck for a 30% pay rise. He did not want a strike; he said so. But he shouted: "A ship's crew including captain, engineer and all the officers would still average less than 75? an hour. I pay a sitter more than that to watch my baby." The owners, who gave the N.M.U. a $45 a month raise last October on W.L.B. orders, were not moved...
...shape of things to come in the peacetime U.S. was still forming hazily, like ectoplasm at a spiritualists' meeting. But U.S. citizens, staring with a séance-sitter's skeptical fascination, began to nudge each other last week. Government and industry really seemed to be conjuring a facsimile of normal living...