Word: households
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teacher, his love affair with Mrs. Bagwell after he had got her husband a job, with pert Betty after he had married her off to simple Mr. Martin, his adventures with Doll Lane, Jane Welsh, Elizabeth Whittle, Frances Tooker, and various maids who were briefly employed in the Pepys household. But not so many readers know that Pepys's famed diary has never been published in an unexpurgated version. For the last eight years, in the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Librarian Francis McDougall Charlewood Turner has been making a new transcript of the six volumes...
...squire picking up her sewing, putting on her evening dress and performing other distinctly feminine duties, their surprise tends to make them miss the point of Miss Bagnold's story. The squire, it turns out, is so called because in the absence of her husband she runs the household. Waiting for the birth of her fifth child, she watches over her three sons and her gentle, intuitive daughter, takes no nonsense from anybody: "Nonsense and a trouble," she thinks, "but it had to go on. No other way of living if you wanted to walk to your grave cloaked...
Most titanic rebel in the group of legendary rebels which You Can't Take It With You assembles in the living room of a shabby urban household is Grandpa Vanderhof (Lionel Barrymore), retired for 35 years because he decided one morning 'that working was no fun. His daughter, Penny Sycamore (Spring Byington). writes plays because someone once delivered a typewriter to the house by mistake; his son-in-law (Samuel Hinds) manufactures fireworks in the basement; his granddaughter, Essie (Ann Miller), studies ballet with a ferociously impecunious Russian (Mischa Auer); and the assorted camp followers of the Vanderhpf...
...making serious boners. Without being maudlin or saying an ill word of anyone, she generally manages to say what she means. But most gratifying to millions of women readers who write her thousands of letters is Mrs. Roosevelt's ability to make the nation's most exalted household seem like anybody else's: "The White House is crowded with guests these days, and we never go in or out without finding groups of people examining the portraits in the corridor or walking through, looking into the rooms. It is astounding what an amount of cleaning the house...
...like lettuce and such stuff. When a houseboy was married, they were put to much bother to provide a special room, because young Mohammed didn't want the customary wedding-night snoopers hanging around his door. One servant had a mania for jabbing people with forks. Household provisions disappeared as by magic. When a discharged servant was told he had been satisfactory only the first six months, he insisted on references to cover that period. When the servant problem got bad enough, Ruth and Helen really came to believe in evil jinn...