No use talking, I'm an unpractical, useless dealer in dreamware; a metaphysician who don't know how to fry an egg...

The Hooverette [housedress] can be worn as a dress or as an apron. This is the latest in uniforms, madam, according to Vogue.

to stand at present

'If thou dost avow that thou art Augur to the Suitors, then often in prayer must thou have sugared my destruction, and desired my wife for thine own; wherefore thou shalt not escape the painsome bed of death.'