Cheaper By The Dozen

Part I of Essay
The authors of this story, Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, describe the protagonist as a tall man, with a large head, jowls, and a Herbert Hoover collar. So, naturally, he is not small slender type; he passed the two-hundred-pound mark a long ago. Frank ....

Part II of Essay
.... has a three second gap. He would even lather his face with two brushes and then try to shave with two razors. The idea with the two razors didn't work quite as well as some of his other objectives. For instance, he was angrier at the fact that it took him two minutes to put a bandage on his neck then the slash he gave himself while shaving with two hands! No matter what the situation was, Mr. Gilbreth always pushed to work harder and have the family retaliate with the same amount of effort. Every so many months, he would stop into the childre ....