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...Brooklyn, arrested for turning in false fire alarms, Julia Callahan, 27, housemaid, said she would keep on until the City of New York indemnified her for live teeth knocked out by a fireman in 1929 when she playfully turned in a false alarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 14, 1932 | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

...mystery story which keeps a straight face. "Who killed Herbert Wynne?" is the question at the beginning. Mystery loves company and the murderer might have been: a butler with exaggerated hands, an old woman who lies grunting on her deathbed, a peeping-Tom physician, a mumbling housemaid, an arrogant young man, one of two immoral young girls, or a lawyer who wears pince-nez spectacles and casts a tremendously large shadow. On the other hand, young Herbert Wynne might have killed himself. The only persons in the cast not suspected of the crime are a detective sergeant (George Brent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 18, 1932 | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

Noah, at least the story goes, was caught by Mrs. Webster in a somewhat compromising situation with the housemaid. "Why Noah." she exclaimed. "I am surprised"; to which he replied "No dear, / am surprised. You are astonished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 30, 1931 | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

...Nurses' Association, last week called white-collar folk "the greatest unnursed group of a community." To meet the needs of such "unnursed," the nurses are experimenting with service by the hour. Although the nurse thus is relegated to the catch-as-catch-can employment of an apartment housemaid, she may earn a maximum of $2 or $3 an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nurses & Purses | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...Manhattan, Hattie Brown, 25, a housemaid, gulped when questioned about a ring stolen from her mistress. An X-ray picture revealed the ring in her stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Answer | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

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