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arguments, other ways than
...just have to find other ways than arguments in which to beat him.
If your husband fancies himself a cook, stay out of the kitchen when he [makes?] a meal. You don’t like to have him puttering
ex Manners of the Moment, “by Jean” (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1938) : 51 : link (snippet only)
full view (U Minnesota copy/scan, via hathitrust) : 51 : link
more on Jean D. Lyon (1902-1960) at 319a