Word: housemaid
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Married. Sir John William Frederick Fagge, 29, farmhand-baronet of Faver-sham, Kent, England (TIME, April 29); and Ivy Frier, housemaid; in Kent. Sir John's fellow volunteer firemen made an archway of hatchets as the couple left the church...
...Malcolm produced a pert blonde housemaid named Joy Higginson to swear she once abruptly entered the ballroom of his house to see Lady Campbell and a Mr. Bruce Keith "embracing as lovers" on a sofa...
...right sure Herodotus didn't get it from an Old Testament incident. The funniest reference to the same recherche subject is found in Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday, if I remember rightly, only that time it was a housemaid...
Scots ideas of discipline in child training molded the future Queen from birth. In her girlhood as Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, not only was she taught to cook, sew and garden but on certain days, dressed as a housemaid, it was her duty to show tourists the sights of Glamis and afterward when most of them offered tips she was Scotch about that too. About 30 miles from Glamis is the Royal Family's Balmoral Castle, and Queen Mary took an early fancy to budding Lady Elizabeth who presently in 1922 was bridesmaid to Princess Mary. King George...
...supporting cast is, on the whole, excellent, especially Will Geer and Jeanne Dante as an Iowa J.P. and daughter respectively. Mary Wilsey as the outspoken housemaid is adequate. One wishes the Eva Condon, as a veteran actress, would put more vitality into her part, since it is a good...