Word: chambermaid
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...Standard pajamas, identical in pattern, cut and price, will prove a headache. . . . Frequently a co-respondent's gaily-colored pajamas play a prominent part in a divorce suit. Evidence by a hotel chambermaid that she has seen a man in a room wearing pink pajamas would not help the court if all men were wearing pink pajamas...
...meseg to his yf. The Gentleman finding it bad Spelling, and therefore not very intelligible, called his Lady to help him read it. Between them they pick'd out the meaning of all but the yf, which they could not understand. The Lady propos'd calling her Chambermaid: for Betty, says she, has the best knack at reading bad Spelling of any one I know. Betty came, and was surprised, that neither Sir nor Madam could tell what yf was. 'Why,' says she, 'y f spells Wife; what else can it spell?' And, indeed...
...Lisbon he had made it as plain as he could that he and the President saw eye to eye on one matter: "The objective of giving full aid to Great Britain finds myself in full accord with President Roosevelt." First of the many Britons whom he questioned was the chambermaid who served him early morning tea in his hotel room. "How's the war going?" Mr. Willkie asked. Said she: "Of course we're going to win but I think we'd like a little more help from America." To the waiter at breakfast he shot...
...sandbags had begun to sprout green things because instead of being filled with sand, they had been filled with plain black dirt. Norway had been lost. In upper-class English drawing rooms they were saying: "England always loses every battle but the last one." Asked about Norway, the chambermaid said: " 'Orrible! 'Orrible! But I 'ear we gave 'em what for: killed millions more of them than they did of ours and that's certain...
Food, especially pudding, inspires British schoolboys to a "peculiarly revolting form of humor" (e.g., maggots-in-milk-rice pudding; cats' eyes-in-phlegm-sago pudding). For their headmasters they have many names: the Boss, the Chief, the Dox, the Twig, the Pot (also Jerry). A chambermaid is a skivvy, a woman, a hag. Tea, coffee or cocoa is hogwash or pigswill. A boy who studies hard, swots, is treated with the contempt which he deserves. Many and lurid are the names for a new boy: new brat, new squit, new scum, fresh herring. Richest and nastiest is the group...