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Special hints as to washing blankets and dress-materials will be given in the latter part of the book. However carefully and neatly a house may be kept, it requires a special putting in order, known as House-cleaning, at least once a year. Spring and fall are both devoted to it in New England; and, if the matter be conducted quietly, there are many advantages in the double cleaning.
The explosion has blown out a whole lot of books I had forgotten about and didn't even know I had. I'm going to have a thorough house-cleaning. I'm thinking seriously of putting in a vacuum cleaner and a cash register. Titania was quite right, the place was too dirty. That girl has given me a lot of ideas." Aubrey wanted to ask where she was, but didn't like to say so point-blank.
They were hesitating whether to undertake a campaign of municipal house-cleaning, or to devote themselves to the study of the sonnet form in English verse, when an unusual opportunity for distinction opened before them.
Had the wine-casks been scoured and lined with pitch; had the house-cleaning been done; had the grain been taken from the thrashing-floor to the granary; had manure been thrown from the stables and cow-houses and piled into heaps; had the seed been winnowed; had any rope been made; had the old rope been repaired, and had he seen that the slaves mended their coats and caps.
Like a drove of wild beasts forced into a corner by a hunting party, we forced our unmanageable matters to a crisis. The area for old brooms and brushes, tubs, litter, and slops, was at last narrowed down to the kitchen, and all that remained of our house-cleaning was to put that place into something like the semblance of an apartment devoted to culinary purposes.
"No matter about its not being sewed," she went on; "you can nail it together, can't you, Larry?" "Oh, yes!" said Larry. The more hammering the better for him. He hunted up the hammer and two papers of tacks, and as fast as Abby cut he nailed. Delia was unusually busy; for it was house-cleaning time, and she was getting the diningroom ready for the new carpet.
Your family might be somewhat disgruntled but to the pure all things are suggestive. No one else would even give it a thought, except a few old women. Come on. JULIE: You don't know what you ask. THE YOUNG MAN: Do you imagine we'd have a crowd following us? JULIE: A crowd? There'd be a special, all-steel, buffet train leaving New York hourly. THE YOUNG MAN: Say, are you house-cleaning?
Necessary hell! All they had to do with the shipbuilding was to bank their rake-off. I tell you, Thompson, this country has supported the war in great style but there's been a lot of raw stuff in places where you wouldn't suspect it. I'm not knocking, y' understand. This is no time to knock. But when the war's over, we've got to do some house-cleaning." Thompson called the shipyard first.
"Oh, a lot of things: reinstatement; your order to investigate the Denver management; a chance to build his railroad unmolested; and, as a side issue, a chance to whitewash your administration of Pacific Southwestern by conducting the house-cleaning in your name this last because he thinks something of the family honor. He doesn't have to consider us, you know.
This was an ample force, my wife considered, for all purposes of house-cleaning, and had so announced to the individuals concerned some days before she mentioned the matter incidentally to me. We had experienced, in common with others, our own troubles with servants, but were now excellently well off in this respect. Things had gone on for months with scarcely a jar.
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