Word: housemaids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...children clutched one another in terror-though Conqueror soon asked the cop for a turn at the wheel. At a movie, Free could not believe his eyes; Untamed burst into tears when she saw children at play in a park. While a sympathetic public offered jobs ranging from housemaid to factory hand to Sonia and the government promised to care for her children, the father-jailer was locked up in a cell. The charges: kidnaping, illegal possession of firearms, assault, violation of child-labor laws, failure to register the manufacture and sale of a poisonous product, and income tax evasion...
...renaissance is artistic. A lifelong doodler, the AWOL diplomat tries a little weekend sketching and (here we Gauguin!) is startled to find that he is an artist of astonishing power-a Rubens, perhaps, with a touch of Renoir. Within a year he is in Paris, painting his broad-hipped housemaid by day, panting for her by night. But the late-blooming bohemian's idyl is broken by Edith, who shows up to buy a painting and promptly recognizes the lamster. Will he turn worm and let himself be stuffed back into a boiled shirt? Not, the reader...
...Author Frank's tear-shot camera eye pans in on Sheilah Graham when she was still Lily Sheil, a grimy Cockney moppet of six being carted away to the East London Home for Orphans. The eight orphanage years were Dickensian. Eventually Lily found a job as a skivy (housemaid) but soon chucked it. She had a chance to demonstrate a U-shaped toothbrush ("It fits the inside of your teeth") and her pearly performance caught the eye of U-born Major John Graham Gillam, D.S.O. It was a case of an 18-year-old Eliza Doolittle marrying...
...Pioneer's failure to circumnavigate the moon reminded at least one British columnist of a quatrain that Poet Edmund Gosse (1849-1928) claimed was written by his housemaid ad found under her mattress: O moon, when I look on thy beautiful face Careering along through the boundries of space The thought has quite frequently come in my mind. If I'll ever gaze on thy glorious behind...
...Patrick Matimba, 26, might have had quite an ordinary life as just one more Negro making out as best he could under the segregation laws of his native Southern Rhodesia. But. at an interracial dance near London, Patrick met and fell in love with a sturdy young blonde housemaid from Holland. A short time later the two married. When, after returning home alone, Patrick sent for his wife and baby daughter to join him, he became the center of the thorniest and most widely publicized racial dispute in all of Southern Rhodesia's history...