Word: sitter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professional Standards. In Milwaukee, the Journal carried a classified ad: "SITTER FOR BOYS. Grandpa in 50s will sit evenings with your boys age 4 and up. If boy is well behaved, 'no charge.' If permitted to attempt to regulate MISBEHAVIOR into BEHAVIOR, still 'no charge.' If I am not permitted to attempt to teach your boy the 'manners of a little Southern gentleman' I do not wish to SIT or associate with your 'young...
...loved animals and raised hamsters with tender care. He was a good swimmer, and he played on the high-school junior varsity football team. He liked children and was in constant demand as a baby sitter. His father was a little disappointed after his son finished high school last summer because Fred insisted on enlisting in the Marines instead of going to college. But 18-year-old Fred was a sight to warm any father's heart when he came home on a ten-day leave from Camp Lejeune, N.C. He was tanned, soldierly, and as polite and thoughtful...
...obtaining a dog-walker, a perfume smeller, or even a baby-sitter, the hope of Boston employers is the Radcliffe Employment Bureau. In the past three years, the Bureau, headed by Mrs. Mary Shaw, has been filling such requests from her file-jammed office on the second floor of Fay House, in the Radcliffe Quad...
...Gogh's sitter in this portrait is a kindly Breton named Père Tanguy, who kept a small art-supply shop in Paris where the avant-garde foregathered. Van Gogh posed him with the head-on simplicity of a snapshot and surrounded him with the airy colors of Japanese prints. The background makes a sprightly contrast with the solid little sitter and the potato tones of his folded hands. Says British Art Expert Helmut Ruhemann: Van Gogh is one of the two or three artists of all time who has taken the trouble of inventing a new color...
...Treasurer of the United States: Mrs. Ivy Baker Priest, 47, of Bountiful, Utah, assistant chairman of the Republican National Committee, a Republican party worker since she was enrolled as a baby sitter at the age of 10. Ike's second Mormon appointee (the first: Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson), she has always managed the family budget for her husband (a wholesale furniture dealer) and three children, proudly boasts that "my checkbook always balances." As Treasurer her main job will be to do the same for the Treasury's accounts and to sign her name...