Word: houseboys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...returned to the U.S., worked two years in an overall factory, sank $75 in a restaurant which flopped because he spent more time painting than cooking. In 1936, after a spell as a houseboy, he began painting in earnest on a $94-a-month WPA grant...
Burleigh's mother put herself through college, expecting to become a school teacher. Turned down because of her color, she became the housemaid of a wealthy Erie music lover. Between jobs as a houseboy, newsboy, lamplighter, etc., young Harry attended Erie concerts...
...News. In Caldwell, Idaho, Mrs. William Paulson received a thoroughgoing account of her husband's activities as a second lieutenant in Egypt. It was written by his houseboy, in Arabic...
Anthony Eden got his facts from trustworthy eyewitnesses who had escaped from Hong Kong around Feb. 1. Confirmation came immediately from a Miss Phyllis Harrop, first British woman to escape. An anti-vice crusader attached to the Foreign Office, she told reporters in Chungking last week: "My houseboy was killed-bayoneted in the stomach. My [woman servant] was raped by three or four Japanese soldiers. . . . An Englishwoman I knew was first slashed in the face with a soldier's belt, then raped...
...very real threat. What would the Islands' Japanese do then? Islanders who remembered that Jap high-school boys from Hawaii had helped pilot the planes that attacked Pearl Harbor looked uneasily at Hawaii's Japanese thousands going freely, imperturbably about their business. What about the houseboy, the cop on the corner, the farmer down the road? What about the Japs set to guard the Islands...