Word: dairymaid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louis XV died of smallpox after "a Bacchanalian party at which a dairymaid was bathed, combed and perfumed, and placed in his bed. . . ." Next morning he fell ill. The incident, says Dr. Kemble, "was not the source of Louis' infection, for a period of some twelve days elapses between the date of contact with smallpox and the appearance of the first signs of illness...
...become a mendicant. The part that Russian audiences enjoy most in Fear occurs in the second scene of the third act, when Borodin, addressing an audience in a public hall, eloquently summarizes the results of his researches in the emotion which gives the play its name. Says he: "The dairymaid fears confiscation of her cow; the peasant, forcible collectivization; the Soviet worker, perpetual purging of the Party; the political worker, the accusation of lukewarmness; the scientific worker, the accusation of idealism; the technical worker, the accusation of sabotage. "We live in an epoch of great fear. Fear forces the talented...
Last February the body of pretty young Ellen O'Sullivan was found in a bog. Ellen was a dairymaid employed by the Rathmore Creamery in County Kerry. The clothes were torn from her body, her head was bashed in by a boulder. All in all it looked pretty bad for Jeremiah Cronin, a neighboring farmer. He was Ellen's acknowledged sweetheart, and his bicycle was found not far from the scene of the crime...
Farmer Cronin roundly declared his innocence, swore that his bicycle had been stolen the night before. Irish detectives went to work. Suspicion veered toward young David O'Shea, another of Dairymaid Ellen's suitors. A Dublin sleuth slipped into David's little whitewashed hut and hid under a bed for many hours. There he overheard a whispered conversation between David O'Shea and his sister. Sister O'Shea went out of the cabin with a bucket containing one yellow woolen sock and a leather gaiter, which she burned. That was enough for the sleuth...