Word: sittering
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...bachelor who receives visitors at odd hours, La Pipelette can keep a discreet tongue in her head-for a consideration, of course. For the brave young couple on the fifth floor struggling along on nothing a year-well, La Pipelette might act as baby-sitter for one evening, and there would be no charge...
Owing to the natural dangers of the business, student baby sitters are allowed a certain amount of choice. Holl keeps a record of his sitter's preferences as to age, sex, and intensity of recreational activity of their charges. A man who likes to help older children with arithmetic can certainly do so if he wants. An especially talented diaper man likewise has plenty of chance to exercise his talents...
Complaints from the parents are noted down on the chart and new sitters are sent out to try their hand with the babies. Several mothers have called to report that a sitter scared their children, and Holt shifted the over brutal students to families with hardier babies...
Holt is always involved in delicate medication between families and sitters. One time parents walked in on a sitter an hour before the expected time to find him sitting in the living room with his shoes off. The parents objected. Holt firmly upheld the right of all students to take their shoes off whenever they wished...
...year-old Allen Ellender hung up a filibuster record by mumbling for twelve hours 20 minutes, the longest time any Senator had ever talked without relief. "I underwent a dehydration process for two days before I spoke," the Senator explained with the pride of a gabby flagpole-sitter. He refueled himself during his performance with nothing more than two glasses of water, one glass of orange juice, seven chocolate bars and a few tablets for his throat...