Word: houseworker
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...England. Ensconced in their almost new $24,000 building, equal in comfort to most Harvard clubs, the men have a strong sense of common responsibility not only towards the property which they protect and the lives under their care, but for their own living quarters as well. The "housework" is distributed among themselves on a sort of Platonesque basis, and the 50-odd men take turns in doing the floor-waxing, window,-scrubbing, and brass polishing which keeps their establishment as spotless and shining as one of our new destroyers. Spare time is not idled away, but is spent...
...know dozens of women who work. . . . Probably every one of them would rather be at home if she had a husband earning an income sufficient to live on. Believe me, a woman who works eight or nine hours a day and then goes home and does her housework, cooking and sewing at night, hasn't much time to think of "fancy clothes...
Renoir's painter's tastes were hearty: he liked healthy servant girls with ruddy skin and ample breasts. Said he: "Have you ever seen a society woman whose hands were worth painting? A woman's hands are lovely if they are accustomed to housework. I had just as lief paint the first old crock that comes along, just so long as she has a skin that takes the light." According to Mme. Renoir, all her husband asked of a cook was that she have the proper sort of skin. Said he: "A painter who has the feel...