Word: householder
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...collection includes all the more favorable things that some 125 writers of prose and verse have had to say about mothers. It is jacketed, as inevitably as baldness, with Whistler's sour old dam. Considering its subject and its editor, The Mothers' Anthology will doubtless become a household classic. Most of its readers will probably be mothers, and they will have every reason to enjoy themselves. For non-mothers, the book has interest too. Representing some of the world's greatest writers and some of the worst, it shows how the idea of motherhood affected them...
...civilization, within the fringes of the mountains. Sapphira's widowed daughter, an abolitionist at heart, does good among the mountaineers and the slaves. Sapphira's husband, another, spends most of his time at the mill, earnestly reads Bunyan's Holy War. Sapphira herself manages the household from her wheel chair (she has dropsy), yearns for the good life in Winchester. Mainly the story is of her more & more elaborate persecution of the young mulatto Nancy, whom she wrongly suspects of bedding with her husband. At her lowest she invites her rakehell nephew Martin for a visit, assigns...
...there in 1896, Rio shoppers in 1929 rarely saw price tags; they were accustomed to haggling. Jim called his company Lojas Americanas be cause loja means shop in Portuguese. He opened it on June 1, 1929. Opening-hour gawkers timidly approached the unfamiliar narrow counters, laden with cheap trinkets, household goods, gewgaws. Prices were marked, and signs said "Look What One Milreis Will Buy." The gawkers did not buy. Then, one and a half hours after opening, a seven-year-old girl broke the ice, bought a 2 milreis doll. The cash register has been banging ever since...
...stinker that ever lived. But you'll never be fired." She has lived through three books, Trending into Maine, March to Quebec and Wiswell, has also (at Gourmet Roberts' suggestion) written one of her own -a recipe book called Good Maine Food. Third member of the Roberts household is small, wellread, tranquil Mrs. Roberts, who used to do the secretarial work Niece Mosser does...
...Chapman bought a publishing house, and later bought the great, liberal Westminster Review. Chapman, says Author Haight, was vain, humble, shrewd, generous, a quack and a reformer. "Though he refused to publish a novel containing an objectionable love scene, he maintained in the heart of mid-Victorian London a household no novelist would then have dared to describe...