Word: sitter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...daughter of a stevedore in New Orleans, she just as naturally learned to combine it with the new beat of urban blues singers like Bessie Smith. She went to work at 13 as a washerwoman. After moving to Chicago at 16, she was a hotel maid, laundress and baby sitter before her choir solos won her a job on a crosscountry gospel crusade. Chicago remained her home until the end. There she married and divorced twice (no children), opened a beauty parlor and a florist shop with her earnings ($100,000 a year at her peak...
...winning custody in 8% to 10% of all cases handled in his court, a substantial increase over a few years ago. The result, says Lewis Ohleyer, domestic relations commissioner for the San Francisco Superior Court, is that "we are actually choosing who would be the best baby sitter." More and more women now prefer to give up their children, and are not afraid to say so. They know that custody makes remarriage harder; working women, particularly, often find that it hinders their lifestyle...
Volunteer Baby-Sitter. To get that kind of information, Carlson, 60, a short and trim man, has been in constant motion. He prides himself on putting in only one day a week in Chicago, spending the rest of his time roaming the U.A.L. network from Honolulu to New York. He often turns up at United hangars and airport kitchens, shakes hands with startled baggagemen and quizzes stewardesses about flight service and their complaints. Riding coach recently on a U.A.L. flight, he voluntarily handed over $1.50 to a stewardess who had been worrying whether to charge him for a drink...
...phone call, plainclothes Huntington police rose out of the audience and arrested Baird along with 27-year-old Nancy Ann Manfredonia. The charge was that Baird and Mrs. Manfredonia, who attended the lecture with her husband and 14-month-old daughter Kathryn-she could not find a baby sitter-were guilty, under a state penal law, of impairing the morals of a minor. Baird and the mother spent the night in jail; the baby stayed at the station house until 1:30 a.m., exposed to the same contraceptive display, now state's evidence, that supposedly impaired her morals earlier...
Walking through the Yard during Commencement Week, you pass countless numbers of "classmates" and assorted family in town for their twenty-fifth reunion. Workmen clatter chairs in Tercentenary Theatre and student porters wander from building to building and House to House carrying baggage, playing baby-sitter and being generally affable...