Word: charwomen
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...master had not even the rudimentary good sense to stay abovestairs, but popped into the kitchen ("a place I do not expect to see masters") to ask how things were going. Stifling his outrage at this uncouth behavior, Cronin answered stiffly that he must hire two more charwomen to assist the one already employed. "'Three charwomen!" cried Tony. "Why, when I was in digs in Liverpool, Cronin, one charwoman did all the work." Cronin responded icily: "I venture to say, sir, that a royal residence is somewhat different from . . . 'digs' in Liverpool...
...shows. Only the network brass-the high-priced officers known as "Dr. Stanton's Book of the Month Club"-are privy to the board's high secrets. Every night the names are scrambled and a canvas curtain is drawn to make doubly sure that spying charwomen will learn nothing they can leak to NBC. Still the dope gets around. Last fall, for instance, the grapevine had it that Garry Moore was coming down. How could his relaxed variety show compete in the same time slot with NBC's highly touted Ford Startime...
Battle Royal. It was, in fact, one of the worst fiascoes in the annals of royal touring, and it began the very moment Princess Margaret alighted from her plane at the airport. There, the lively Portuguese-gate crashers, airport mechanics and charwomen as well as invited guests -crowded around Margaret in a most un-British manner. According to London's Sunday Express, Margaret was MOBBED IN AIRPORT BATTLE, while a "grim-faced" Ambassador Sir Charles Stirling looked helplessly on. From then on, the British embassy and Portugal's Police Inspector José Passo were determined that the princess...
...Khrushchev has long had ambitions to move many Muscovites far beyond Sputnikville. Two years ago he eliminated scores of Moscow bureaus, ordered 60,000 employees, from charwomen to ranking executives, moved to regional councils thousands of miles away. Last week it developed that many upper-bracket wives had refused to join their husbands in the sticks. Komsomolskaya Pravda summoned seven such wives to its offices to find out why they were not with their husbands in provincial Sverdlovsk, in the Urals. First the women talked of Moscow's culture and comforts, but when assured that Sverdlovsk has culture...
...illegitimate son, Maurice,* when Suzanne was 18, nor her subsequent turbulent love affairs checked her career. Under Degas' tutelage, Suzanne improved her drawing and learned the technique of drypoint etching. She did most of her drawing at home, finding her ideal subjects in the figures of maids, charwomen and women friends whom she sketched, usually bathing. Degas, astonished at her natural talent, hung her work in his dining room, once chided her: "That she-devil of a Maria, what talent she has . . . Why do you show me nothing more...