If the man of the house was rich, a host of slaves or servants did the work.
He was the man of the house, his mother had told him when he was eleven years old.
"No place like home, " the man of the house says, with appropriate expansiveness, while seated on a sort of gilded throne.
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But the answer, of course, isn't for women to revert to their traditional roles of cooking, cleaning and tending to the children while the man of the house is off bringing home the bacon.
He examined the screen door at the top, then, after knocking politely a few times without receiving a response, he finally redirected his eyes and discovered the man of the house vegetating placidly in his hammock, surrounded by large potted flowers and planters of ferns, in the corner of the grape arbor.
The High Court of Tynwald, the parliament of the Isle of Man, has two branches - the House of Keys and the Legislative Council.
Tamerlan "swaggered" through the family home like a "man-of-the-house type, " one visitor recalls, while Dzhokhar seemed "very respectful and very obedient" to his mother.
Although there's no presidential contest then, often the battles in the House and Senate (and in many cases those for governor) are a reaction to or a referendum of the policies of the man in the White House.
The opportunity was an awesome one, and the income was needed to provide for our family, but it was painful for me to leave because my nieces would no longer have the presence of a strong man in the house.
And yet, the man with the plan to be speaker of the House, John Boehner, attacked us for closing corporate tax loopholes and using the money to keep hundreds of thousands of essential personnel on the jobs all across the states.
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Four people have been elected on to the Isle of Man's Legislative Council at a special sitting of the House of Keys.
Crews rescued a man from the rear of the house using a ladder.
Then they gave a price for painting the outside walls of the house and the crippled man said it was too much.
And what does the man's health or the dirtiness of the house have to do with the woman's job or income?
The homeowner went round to the back of house, saw the man in the porch and shut him in there.
The police said the boxer's car was also recovered from near the house of the Canadian-based man, who is being described as the main suspect.
The barrister for a man accused of the manslaughter of six children in a house fire has claimed that a "maniac arsonist" could be responsible.
Every day during the summer, the man himself can be found sitting near the front of house, chain-smoking Marlboro reds.
Police provided no other details on the man who was in the house at the time of the break-in, except to say he was not injured.
Another man in the city of Granada, whose house was also due to be repossessed, apparently committed suicide last month.
Another 911 call came in less than a minute later from a man who saw Berry busting out of the house.
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Even the Father of the House, and renowned grumpy old man, Sir Edward Heath offered a glowing tribute to the former Tiller girl who started work in the Commons as an MP's secretary.
Additionally, budgets will be redirected from the in-house man hours required to oversee the more routine parts of the job.
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Earlier, at 1525 BST, the body of a 56-yr-old man was found at a house in the Llandeilo area.
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Detectives investigating the murder of a man whose body was found in a burning house in West Sussex are returning to the area to seek potential witnesses.
Luckily, the man was found unharmed, but he was sleeping on the slab of concrete of his house that was foreclosed.
For its part, the White House pronounced itself "baffled" that a man of Murtha's record would turn against the war, comparing his new views to those of controversial documentary filmmaker Michael Moore.
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