Word: housemaids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whom Shakespeare prophetically wrote: Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. -Burton's voice and Welsh background also made him a natural for the documentary, A Tribute to Dylan Thomas, winner of a Hollywood Oscar a fortnight ago. *A housemaid's journal in Britain, now defunct. -Rex is suing...
Tovarich explores new frontiers of boredom in an unmusical noncomedy. As a White Russian grand duchess posing as a housemaid in Paris in 1927, lovely Vivien Leigh does a Charleston to remember, and otherwise lights up the proceedings like a matchflare in a catacomb...
...with her master (Birger Malmsten). Like the hero of the novel, the master is an arrogant and atrabilious young bourgeois who hammers moodily on a grand piano and one day is stricken blind. Bitter in his affliction, he scorns her love. "Dare I aspire," he sneers, "to marry the housemaid?" Hurt to the heart, she leaves, and he is left to suffer at life's hands what she has suffered at his, to take the fall that pride traditionally portends...
...University ofAlabama, now considering its third Negro applicant in five weeks. The only one publicly known is Vivian Malone, 20, of Mobile, daughter of a housemaid. Applicant Malone, presently a junior majoring in business education at all-Negro Alabama A. & M., will not have to go to court to establish the right of Negroes to enter the university. The school has been under federal court order not to discriminate ever since 1956, when Coed Autherine Lucy (now studying education at Texas Southern University) was expelled because she charged university collusion with the mobs that chased her from the campus...
...Mansfield knew better. Asked about Humphrey's forecast, he simply sighed: "What week?" A newsman suggested to Mansfield that in Election Year 1962. a lot of members of Congress were by now praying for adjournment. Retorted Mansfield: "If I pray any more, I'm going to have housemaid's knee...