Word: chambermaid
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...A.M.A. protested, as did Reddick's own colleagues on the board. But Reddick allowed the questionable candidates to take qualifying exams, issued licenses to all-after complaining that he had to retrieve four exam papers "stolen by a chambermaid in the pay of the A.M.A...
...timid new hotel chambermaid is warned to expect trouble from the countess, for Lucrezia Sanziani is dotty, penniless and old-a kind of walking Roman ruin. Fresh from Rome's Trastevere slums, Carmela, the young chambermaid, is prepared to quake at the countess' least whim. Instead, she finds herself cast as a confidante of yesteryear in the old lady's wandering mind. Each day, in the afterglow of the Roman twilight, the countess stares deeply into her Florentine silver-gilt hand mirror and conjures up a hallucinated remembrance of loves past...
...with a Philadelphia accent of thrift and humor. Even crusty New Englander John Adams, seemingly too patrician to accept a self-made boy at his true worth, had to admit: "There was scarcely a peasant or a citizen, a valet de chambre, coachman or footman, a lady's chambermaid or a scullion in a kitchen, who ... did not consider him a friend to human kind...
From Clement Attlee's chambermaids to Eleanor Roosevelt's valets at the White House, the Westerners who cast eyes upon the belongings of Vyacheslav Molotov never ceased to be astonished by what they saw. One British chambermaid noted that beneath his pillow the Russian kept a pistol. Mrs. Roosevelt's servants reported that Molotov had brought a chunk of black bread, a roll of sausage, and a pistol. "Mr. Molotov evidently thought he might have to defend himself, and also that he might be hungry," Mrs. Roosevelt confided. "I liked him very much...
...extravagance that accompanies thoughtless sinning and specious repentance provides the film's humor while a pack of servants contribute the low comedy necessary for most pieces of specific sophistication. As high seduction reigns in the drawing room, the boot-black corners the chambermaid in the kitchen in mocking counter point...