Word: household
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other morning a dignified and white haired gentleman, faultlessly dressed in morning coat and top hat applied at the Palace gates for an interview with an official of the King's household. He was at once passed in, for he is quite a well known figure in society and it was discovered to the amazement of the official whose duty it was to interview him, that he had come to tell the King's doctors that they were dealing with the case on a hopelessly wrong diagnosis. The King, he told the official, was suffering from the ill effects...
...main collection, of household articles, furnishes a panorama of American inventive improvement. There are, for example, candle moulds and Betty lamps, planes and locks, one of them supposed to have come from the old Pennsylvania state building at Harrisburg. There are augurs which had to be removed from the hole at every turn to get rid of the shaving. Most interesting of all, perhaps, is a funnel-like device with a plunger, called a sausage gun, by means of which our early hot dogs were stuffed...
Under Pope Leo XIII Merry del Val was Master of the Robes and Privy Chamberlain, and one of the youngest members of the papal household. He had ample exercise for his patrician tastes. He liked horses, liked dancing; he was an excellent shot. In ecclesiastical matters however he was not widely known. And when the new pope, Pius X, in his emergency, selected Merry del Val as ProSecretary of State the decision came as a distinct shock...
Then suddenly she was confronted, not by a "piece of nonsense" but by an actress whose virtue was a British household word -a thoroughly wicked woman, grist to the Arlenesque mill. This crafty villainess bewitches the carthorse into cad, and breaks Lily Christine's heart. Not the least of the heroine's anguish is over a respectable middle-class boyfriend whom she has unwittingly involved in the scandal. And just as the plot is thickening pleasantly, Lily Christine's creator pitches her under the wheels of a motor-lorry...
Reason: Parliament had just tripled "Lucky Gaston's" salary, raising the President of France from 600,000 francs to 1,800,000 francs per year ($70,200). In addition the Presidential allowances for "household expenses" and "travel" were raised to $27,300 and $35,000. But M. le President must pay an income tax of $31,200. Thus his net stipend from the state is $101,400 per year...