Word: housework
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite combining housework with homework, the Missus at Radcliffe has one up academically on her unmarried classmates. Not a single married student now in the College or in last year's graduating class ranked below Group Five, Dean's Office listings show...
...house were more than doubled by the accessible decks, patio and garden. The B.s agreed that it cut down on housework and let a lot more sun, space and air into their lives. It would not date-at least not for a long time-it fitted all their special needs, and it was handsome in a boldly simple way. When they had sold their antiques and moved in, Mrs. B. could think of only one word to describe the way she felt about it: "Liberation...
Nevertheless, "The Track Of The Cat" is a deeply engrossing bock. What Clark misses by his indefinite allegory and also by his sometimes tedious portrayal of petty details (endless scenes of housework in the ranch kitchen for instance) he makes up for in his absolutely unsurpassed descriptions of the mountains, the storm, the break-up of a strong man under stress, and the general atmosphere of coldness, loneliness and terror...
...wife to provide me with a hot meal," said McNeil, "but I have been known to urge my wife to leave the making of the Sunday lunch to me ... I make a very excellent Sunday lunch." U.S. Delegate Eleanor Roosevelt threw a sharper spear: "Who does the housework in the Soviet Union? Is it always done by the men, or are all the services performed through some communal arrangement...
...encourages its readers to help write the magazine (sample feature: "I hated housework till . . ."), and hires 97 housewives and other subscribers to act as story "scouts." These are not penny-pinching dodges; the editors spend money freely to test their ideas. In the current issue, for an illustrated article on carpets and color schemes, B. H. & G. laid out $9,000 for expenses (which included building and furnishing four sample rooms) before the magazine was prepared to tell its readers...