Word: charwoman
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...Author of: The Crock of Gold, Here Arc Ladies, The Charwoman's Daughter, Songs from the Clay, The Demi-Gods, Reincarnation Dcirdrc, In the Land of Youth. †England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, the four kingdoms of the British Isles, existed side by side at the time of the Norman Conquest (1066). In 1169, Henry II forced Wales to acknowledge his suzerainty and Kdward I (1272-1307) completed the conquest of that kingdom. When Eleanor, his Queen, gave birth to a son in Carnarvon, a Welsh town, he was presented to the Welsh as a native prince "who could speak...
...century ago. The public cries for bread, he declares, and in return England's young modernists are giving them literary stones. Prose, writers turn out drab, boorish novels, and pseudo poets concoct yards and yards of verse, written "with one eye on Mammon and the other on the Charwoman's Elastic sided Boots". All that remains of a splendid past is an attenuated Hardy in the flesh, and faint memories of Francis Thompson and Swinburne...
...lies in the gradual awakening of the various characters to their destination. They are a most miscellaneous assembly-a drunken youth, a clergyman, Mrs. Cleveden Banks with all the careless vices of wealthy indolence, a business man with all the offensive manner of success, a pair of lovers, a charwoman, a steward...
Alfred Lunt, as the drunken youth, carries the burden of the leading part with extraordinary comprehension and performance. Beryl Mercer (lately Queen Victoria) adds another memorable portrait to her stage gallery as the charwoman. Lionel Watts, Leslie Howard, and Margalo Gillmore lend competence that edges upon distinction to the clergyman and the lovers. The Examiner is Dudley Digges (Adding Machine man). The New Poor. The immigration Russian royalty to our shores is deftly satirized in this latest inscription for the stage from the pen of the socially penetrating Cosmo Hamilton. Into a household lately bereft of its entire corps...
...happy linking together of two penny-pinching temperaments. The grand passion of Henry's life was for solid cash ? a passion so strong it attained the proportions of self-sacrificing heroism. When he discovered on the eve of his marriage that Violet had actually been paying their mutual charwoman, Elsie, less than he, he glowed to think what a wonderful wife he was getting. So he wedded her with a nine-caret ring and Elsie stayed on to work harder than ever at even smaller wages for the two of them...