Word: charwomen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Barcaldine history is then exposed in a series of flashbacks-an accidental meeting at an exposition in the century's early years, a wedding in a registry office with two charwomen as witnesses. Years later their only daughter gives herself to a married man who lives in the flat below and dies in childbirth. Barcaldine faces a bankruptcy court. But always there are subtle filaments which bind man and wife -"Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown...
...Bashful charwomen hid their worn shoes beneath modest skirts, balanced frail teacups on large red hands...
Improved conditions for charwomen and barmaids...
...statue of woman with arms outstretched to little children. It bears the inscription: 'Placed here in memory of Margaret Ethel MacDonald, who spent her life in helping others.' She was my wife who died in 1911, leaving me five children. The 'others' refers to charwomen and barmaids, whose working conditions my wife delighted to improve...
...Author. Born in St. Louis in 1889, Miss Hurst received a B. A. degree from Washington University 20 years later. Now she enjoys Manhattan and has a scatter-brained puppy to amuse her. She says that she has sympathy for "the shoulders of charwomen as they scrub at night and the silhouettes of figures who sleep on wharves." She has tried the stage, and has worked in a Childs