Word: households
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more amusing exhibits is a book edited by Thomas Tusser in London in 1580 entitled "500 Points of Good Husbandry". The page to which it is opened enumerates the benefits for which the members of a household should be grateful on Christmas...
...write a poem and have it read among the supreme ten-what exquisite happiness ! Every year at least 30,000 Japanese write and enter poems in the contest. If they live abroad they frequently cable them to the Imperial Household Ministry. Last week the Ministry announced, amid general rejoicing, that the set theme for Imperial Poems this year will be "KAIHEN NO IWAWO" or "ROCKS AT THE OCEAN'S FRINGE...
...left with two striking thoughts: 1) A convenient and unusual thing to have behind the false wall of a private vault is the boudoir of your mistress; 2) very mysterious shooting may be accomplished by planning to have the bullets, instead of striking directly, bounce off some such household object as a chandelier, umbrella stand or commode. Playwright Hugh Stanislaus Stange's thriller will appeal to small boys, but perhaps they had better not be allowed to see Miss Florence Johns's harrowing portrayal of a dope fiend...
...lute playing had supposedly died in 1790 with the German Christian Gottlieb Scheidler. Hence he listened with a peculiar appreciation to the music of the blind man. He went home, spoke enthusiastically of its sweetness and its delicacy. Soon after four lutes were ordered for the Aguilar household and the four children, Ezequiel, Pepe, Paco and Elisa, were set to practising...
...many a rich old lady he is vice president of Phelps-Dodge Co. To flower fanciers he is known for the unique arrangement of his Park Avenue mansion: the bedrooms open on a central hothouse filled with orchids, whose perfume lulls to sleep and soothingly awakens the James household. But to railroad men, and to the general public, Arthur Curtiss James is the man who owns more railroad stocks than any one else in the country. Great are his holdings in the Great Northern?Northern Pacific?Chicago, Burlington & Quincy group. His Western Pacific holdings are even more extensive. Strangely...