Word: households
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Handa, a weary, practical housewife, objected shrilly. She was fed up with her husband's ritualistic drum-beating and flute-playing; the neighbors had ostracized her. But Handa was unmoved. He sold the family's clothes; in return, the new altar was installed in the Handa household...
...said, "is your autographed photograph." At dinner he got it, a huge picture inscribed to "mi gran amigo." He also got a Peronista button for his lapel and a small "loyalty medal," an unofficial Peronista emblem which the President had previously given only to members of his household...
Died. Al Shean (real name: Albert Schonberg), 81, apple-cheeked, amiable comic favorite in the oldtime vaudeville team of ("Positively") Mr. Gallagher* & ("Absolutely") Mr. Shean, which wowed audiences in the '20s (they played 67 weeks in the 1923-24 Ziegfeld Follies^ made their 500-odd verses household jingles) ; in Manhattan. A veteran of 60 years in show business, German-born Al Shean first turned to legitimate theater in 1912 (he also made some 20 Hollywood films), scored his biggest Broadway hit 25 years later as the Benedictine monk in Father Malachy's Miracle...
...stores were also operating a big mail-order business in the form of "special orders." Originally, special orders were designed to help servicemen buy furniture below retail prices, on the theory that they moved their household effects frequently and that "three moves equals one fire" in wear & tear. Not much furniture was sold, but plenty of orders were filled, many for officers with a taste for diamond rings, fur coats (tax free), sterling silver and automobiles...
...Shigeko (called Teru no Miya: Shining Highness) Higashi-Kuni, 23, eldest of Emperor Hirohito's six children, and Prince Morihiro Higashi-Kuni, 33, eldest son of Japan's surrender Premier, Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni: their third child, second son (Hirohito's third grandchild); in the imperial household's private hospital, Tokyo. Weight: 7 lbs. 13.7 oz. Name: undisclosed...