• @samus12345@lemm.ee
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    910 months ago

    I found this one to be particularly interesting. Based Jule Cantwell and Helen Unger was right on with “lots” - it remains quiet popular!

    • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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      610 months ago

      I also like that they list Helen’s profession as "home girl ", which has since become a slang term itself, the original use being more or less extinct 😁

      • @Ryumast3r@lemmy.world
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        410 months ago

        Curious what that profession actually is, is it a wife/“homemaker”? Or a paid profession that I couldn’t find on Google? I really tried to find that phrasing but in my defense I’m drunk and also Google sucks nowadays.

        • @evranch@lemmy.ca
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          510 months ago

          I would guess she is simply a girl who hasn’t left home yet?

          Today she would probably be a student, but she isn’t studying anything. Maybe she plans to become a housewife rather than train for a career, as that was a viable “career path” in those days.

        • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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          210 months ago

          I think maybe a kind of servant that work around the house as in when a fancy lady would say “You must be exhausted from all that fox trotting! I’ll have the girl run you a bath” 🤷