Word: chambermaid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russians were stunned - although they knew from the Yalta newsreels that Franklin Roosevelt had become a tired and aging man. They honored him as no foreigner had been honored before - with black-bordered flags above the Kremlin, with memorial broadcasts and exhibits. Varvara Kruichkov, the war-widowed chambermaid who had dusted the President's apartment at Yalta, remembered his friendly "Spasibo - Thank you," and paid the tribute of all the proletariat: "He was a great man." In Moscow's streets people said to Americans: "Kak Zhalko! -What a pity!" And they asked: "Who is this Truman...
...seven years of reporting on the Sioux Falls (S.D.) Argus-Leader when she came to Chicago in 1942, just when many a big city's news room was converting from profanity to perfumery. Sent to cover a hotel murder case, she wangled a job as chambermaid, scrubbed seven bathrooms on her hands & knees, muttered: "I wouldn't do this for the man I love. I don't know why I do it for the Daily News." Last week, her scrubbing and striving rewarded by promotion, Night City Editor Thrasher was still not certain it was worth...
...sentence structure and philosophical overtones, but also the use of fantasy as a literary method. Sonia, who spends a disturbing amount of her childhood sleeping on the floor on a pallet, dreams about a wealthy, untouchable Boston spinster named Miss Pride. She met Miss Pride while working as a chambermaid in the Hotel Barstow in Chichester, just outside Boston. "Over and over again," dreams Sonia, "until my eyes closed, I imagined the day on which my parents would die and Miss Pride would come to take me to live at the Hotel...." Eventually Sonia's fantasy is outdone...
...morning when he was through. On the floor lay a body, slashed and dismembered beyond recognition. He bathed and dressed and walked into the hall. A chambermaid smiled as he said, politely, "Please don't disturb my wife." He walked into the street...
...wants to drive this charming wife crazy by making her think his searching footsteps in the attic are only figments of her imagination, is hard to understand. Maybe he wants to get Miss Bergman out of the way so he can marry Leslie Brooks, the pert chambermaid...