Word: womening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American women are so spoiled...
...they spoiled? . . . When they are ill, they have to go to hospital, to get the care that an ordinary Englishwoman . . . would get from her servant as a matter of course. . . . There are many towns in America without one single, solitary servant, towns where all the women have to do their own housework, cooking, most of the washing, and usually the gardening...
...That is why American women do their housekeeping so deftly and with so little fuss. They have always known how! They have grown up without servants, and it has never occurred to them that there is anything derogatory-or splendid-about housework or cooking. Everybody does it! . . . The wife of the ordinary middle-class American cannot then, in the nature of things, be spoiled...
...millionaires of America, though much in the public eye, are in a microscopic minority, and it is no fairer to judge [American women] by the wives of millionaires than it would be, for example, to generalize about Englishwomen from the riders in the Row or the owners of boxes at the Opera...
Swarthy and reckless Signer Mario Carli, a young favorite of Il Duce, laid about him outrageously again, last week, in the lurid pages of his arch-Fascist Roman news sheet, L'Impero. Last fortnight Editor Carli outraged smart Italian women who slenderize themselves and refuse to have children by telling them (TIME, Jan. 21) that "such sweet egotists, such darling morsels of vanity, should be soundly smacked on every possible occasion!" Last week, even this ungallant bravado was eclipsed when Smacker Carli took a sounding wallop at tourists...