Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legs with a small head and nothing in between-nothing shapely that is. She has no waistline, no bosom and no hips. Let us hope that she is a nice gal inwardly because outwardly she looks a little bit monsterish. Inside these new toadlike shapeless clothes, the 1958 woman of fashion will have to be the very jewel of sweetness and grace to even seem human...
...last few years to 1,971,000 chambermaids, laundresses, cooks and cleaning women, another 50,000 butlers and valets-to say nothing of that uniquely American profession, the dollar-an-hour baby sitter. Today's maid shortage is a scarcity of financial plenty. For every U.S. woman who has a maid, a dozen others want and could afford...
...cook and clothes to wash, more places to go and problems to cope with every day. The migration to the suburbs means more chauffeuring for mothers, more gardening, more sports and club meetings, all jammed into an already crowded day. Despite all the labor-saving new gadgets, the U.S. woman wants and needs a maid to help...
...practically disappeared from the U.S. scene. Like everybody else, the modern domestic is a specialist-or at least acts like one. Many maids will not mind children; a special "mother's helper" does that for an extra 50? an hour. Others do not do heavy cleaning (a cleaning woman comes in twice a week), will not climb ladders to wash the outside of windows (an off-duty fireman or cop does it for 50? a window) ; an upstairs maid does not dust downstairs; a downstairs maid will not clean upstairs...
...maid or cook frequently draws down as much as $250 a month v. $150 a few years ago, and a couple gets $600 a month, all plus free room and board; even live-out maids earn upwards of $200 a month, and the increasingly popular part-time cleaning woman averages $10 a day. What is more, the servant chooses the family, not vice versa. Says Mrs. Betty A. Heinke, who runs a California employment agency: "First, I ask the client's telephone number and address. If it's not a good location, that presents a problem right...