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...have contracted any of the following diseases: athlete's foot, scurvy, beriberi, housemaid's knee, ringworm, malaria, St. Vitus' dance, bubonic plague, cold, sore throat, sore back, body odor or halitosis...
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...
...This is the Army, Mil Sci four. . . . You had a housemaid to clean your floor, but she won't help you out any more." This is the tune that the Military Science Department called for its present class of about 100 advanced course cadets in a release last night which revealed a War Department order that will make buck privates of the present cadet officers upon the initiation of the Army Specialized Training Program, presumably in February...
...grounds both of entertainment and of education, for "Angel Street" is a well-nigh perfect example of what a cracker-jack cast can do to rescue mediocre melodrama from becoming ridiculous. The play itself is just another mystery, complete with eerily fading gas-lights, a sex-hungry housemaid, and brooches with secret compartments. If read, it would be more an exercise in credulity than an experience in literature...
...threatening court action if he didn't mend his studio manners (i.e., references to company executives, language in front of cinemoppets, general demeanor). Back came a reply: "Dear Sir, Mr. Fields and I read your letter and did we laugh." It was signed "Adele" (Fields's Negro housemaid...