Word: housemaids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...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...
...Dancer Adele Astaire thought she was the opposite of an angel. Lady Ribblesdale went as Charlie Chaplin, Banker Mortimer Schiff as Oscar Wilde. Two socialite matrons chose to dress as "Ladies of the Temperance Union." Composer Cole Porter went as an oldtime footballer, his wife as a housemaid. Princess Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst wore the robes...
Jane was sensible, but she was pretty. It was lucky she was sensible, for her station was low, poverty-ridden: she lived with her ne'er-do-well father, her shiftless sister, on a derelict barge in the Thames, in the heart of London; worked all day as a housemaid. It was too bad she was pretty, for otherwise rich young Artist Bryan might never have noticed...