Word: sittering
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...Mallory, he was given back his possessions-a gray suit and $12.60 -and turned loose. Wandering from job to job, he finally found work as a baby sitter for a Washington couple. When they fired him, Mallory broke into their home and beat the wife, but the police could not find him. In 1960, police in Philadelphia arrested him for entering a house and beating and raping a mother of four children. Convicted of assault, he served another eleven years, emerging last October...
...does admire them. Shirley, Florynce, Bella, Betty, Gloria, Germaine, Kate. And when one of them comes to town, she will arrange, often with great difficulty, to go and hear her speak. She will make the complicated arrangements for the sitter to come and cover the home front for her and "liberate" her for a few hours. (This is the context in which that word is mainly used in her life...
...after the meeting has dispersed, after the ball is over, and the sense of excitement and communion begins to dim, she climbs into her car, station wagon, Land Rover, bus, taxi-and goes home. And it hits her. She arrives home to pay the sitter or what-have-you, to take over the children, to keel the pot like greasy Joan, to put the kettle on like Polly, to take up the reins of her existence. Only -something is wrong...
Gullible. Yet for all that, Irving seemed almost eerily unconcerned. He bounced out of the courthouse with a smile and handshakes for newsmen friends. He even left the two children with a sitter and took Edith out for a night on the town. One can only guess at the conversation between them. But perhaps, being a modestly talented novelist with the look of a sardonic Danny Kaye. Irving was actually enjoying the knowledge that the story he was living was far more interesting than anything he ever put on paper...
...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...