servantless

There are certain little routine joys known only to the servantless suburbanite.

In 1946 he restored the house for himself, remodelling the kitchen to the servantless times (though he continued to be looked after by housekeeper friends).

They were childless and servantless, and they had reduced simple living to the finest of fine arts.

"In the postwar era they made their hungry, servantless readers and viewers feel they still belonged to an elite."

He was wedded to his wash-houses; he had no taste for the rural life; and we must go to our mountain servantless.

But in the age of the working mother and the servantless household, the notion of the harvest feast laboriously prepared by hand had to go.

He is clearly uncomfortable in the role of servantless than a week ago he was probably in combatbut he's gracious enough, all things considered.

In the meantime, Templeton's life remains, by all appearances, frugal, servantless, even slightly down-at-heel.

As Life magazine put it in 1949: "Except when entertaining, Johnson lives alone, servantless and accompanied only by weather, paintings and books."

He visited England’s important historic homes, and through his tenacity, patience and charm, persuaded many owners, soon to be made servantless and impoverished by the war, to hand their properties to the nation.

I cannot reveal the details of our shocking expeditions, or catalogue even partly the worst of the trophies adorning the nameless museum we prepared in the great stone house where we jointly dwelt, alone and servantless.

I apologize for that," Henry frowns as he spreads the yellow plaid lap robe and unpacks the picnic of cold chicken, artichokes, and sherry (being servantless, Henry 'd had to plan the meal himself). "

She took a considerable interest in the housework that our generally servantless condition put upon her--she used to have a charwoman in two or three times a week--but she did not do it with any great skill.

Many gentry families in the servantless post-war decades soldiered on in antiquated houses with the help of a daily woman, who returned to her own home kitted out with a washing machine, immersion heater and television - luxuries unknown to her employers.

The second memoir, "Julie & Julia," follows writer Julie Powell as she works her way through a self-imposed quest: cooking all 524 recipes in Child's book, all specifically formulated for "the servantless American cook," in the space of one 364-day year.

I sometimes did little unexpected kid things out of my tenderness for her, and was always glad to be the one to take up tea for her if she was unwell, and so on, or to help her with the housework when she was servantless.

It's not just the elegance of Fussell's prose that makes me prefer her book to Powell's; it's that she engaged and contextualized "MtAoFC," using Child's primer for the Francophile "servantless American cook" to explain what went down in 60's suburbia.

The introduction showed Mrs. Child at her most direct: "This is a book for the servantless American cook who can be unconcerned on occasion with budgets, waistlines, time schedules, children's meals, the parent-chauffeur-den mother syndrome or anything else which might interfere with the enjoyment of producing something wonderful to eat."

True, he had to make distracting, bread-winning forays away from it but then, with glad and hastening steps, he returned to the true centre of his life, the children whom he helped to feed and bath and dress and play with, even cook for, in domestic servantless days like these.

The majority of the residential edifices are far finer and more substantial than our own modest shelter, though we gather from such chance glimpses as we get of their arrangements that the labour-saving ideal runs through every grade of this servantless world; and what we should consider a complete house in earthly England is hardly known here.