Word: chambermaid
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...month) and church organist, he never got the hayseeds out of his close-cropped hair. His courtesy was a little like that of an uneasy headwaiter. He referred to people he met as "Your Grace," addressed Brahms as "Mr. President." He was always imagining himself in love with some chambermaid or adolescent girl. But in his old age he confided to his housekeeper: "Only once in my life when I was young, did I ever kiss a girl. I have repented it deeply...
...roadside inn which is shortly to become German Staff Headquarters. He quickly assumes the clothes and the role of a dead waiter who had been a Nazi agent. Brought before Rommel, he learns that he will be sent to Cairo for another undercover assignment. With a pretty French chambermaid called Mouche (Anne Baxter), he manages to decipher enough in Rommel's papers to locate five mysterious "graves" of buried German Army supplies on the road to Cairo. Then he starts east for Egypt-unaware that Mouche is about to fall before a German firing squad...
...hotel roof, had found one of the circulars, and had seen what were apparently gun flashes at sea. So I decided to take a look. Soon I found two of the circulars, and brought them down to my room-one of them later disappeared-I think the chambermaid swiped one! As the firing continued, I went up again just as the antiaircraft in the port opened up. The French guns made a heck of a racket and the sky was full of black bursts. There was the continual rattle of machine-gun fire. At first I couldn't make...
...Senate to order the arrest of eight missing members who were known to be in Washington. The sergeant at arms' staff routed Nevada's Senator Berkeley L. Bunker out of his office by using a passkey, captured Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar by inducing a chambermaid to unlock his hotel apartment. South Carolina's Senator Burnet R. Maybank, reached at his home by telephone, agreed to come quietly...
...morning in 1816 an Englishman with a godlike face and a deformed foot registered at a Belgian inn, and, '"as soon as he reached his room . . . fell like a thunderbolt upon the chambermaid." It was George Gordon Lord Byron, "for whom foreign travel had a psychological significance which his traveling compan ions could not long ignore." His com panions: Dr. John ("Polly dolly") Polidori; his "querulous" valet, Fletcher; his sparring partner. Next afternoon they all set off for Switzerland via the year-old battlefield of Waterloo where Byron, an insatiable souvenir hunter, bought some scraps of old iron...