Word: suppers
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Holy Grail. This conspicuous piety also inspired a large collection of relics, including the mummified corpse of one of the Holy Innocents slain by King Herod, fragments of nails used in the Crucifixion, and the chalice from which Christ supposedly drank at the Last Supper...
...late for me, but you young ones-go to it. Work your way up. Fight like hell. Don't be frustrated by dirty dishes, toilets and children. Rush out each day to that exhilarating, high-paid position; rush home to that hot-cooked supper (cooked by whom?); relax in that nice clean living room (cleaned by whom...
...with," Mrs. Murphy remarks. They have a daughter, aged four, and a son, three, and their highly organized schedule permits little social life. They leave I heir home in Annandale, Va., before the children are awake, entrusting them to a live-in housekeeper until they return, again together, for supper...
THOSE Depression lyrics from the musical Sing for Your Supper were first presented to the public in 1939 by the Works Progress Administration. At the same time, that agency was covering the country with highways, bridges, sidewalks, sewers and dams, giving free piano lessons to housewives and eventually providing jobs for 8.5 million Americans who otherwise would have been unemployed. Its activities have suddenly become of considerably more than antiquarian interest. The Nixon Administration has sneered that Democrats pushing public employment programs to relieve current joblessness are only "rediscovering the WPA" although at least one Administration official has suggested that...
More than half of the money went for construction. But since WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins believed that man did not live by concrete alone, WPA gave work to thousands of writers, artists, musicians and actors. In addition to Sing for Your Supper, the agency's Federal Theater Project spread the works of Shakespeare, Marlowe and Eugene O'Neill. The Federal Writers' Project published about 1,000 books and pamphlets; its famous American Guide Series is still a mainstay. For good or ill, the Federal Art Project revived mural painting, largely to decorate public buildings. The Federal Music...