Word: housemaids
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...Mathilde was "naive, vain and stupid." In bed, it never occurred to her that Verlaine's "tigerish love" hid a yearning for motherly protection. When friends came to the house one day in Mathilde's absence, he was in a small closet, locked in the housemaid's shielding arms...
...characters on and off stage reveals his unsure stage craftsmanship, as do some of his strongest assets: some of his pungent, well-wrought lines, which sounded excellent from a nearly excessively bright novelist, can sound overpolished in the mouths of characters on stage, especially such a character as a housemaid...
...train trip down trailed by two hired detectives who carefully avoided speaking to him; the registration in the cold hotel as "Mr. and Mrs."; the embarrassed moments in the double bed beside the girl in a nightgown, he reading a newspaper, she munching sweets as they waited for the housemaid to bring breakfast and witness the incriminating scene. At least three breakfasts on three mornings were considered essential. Until 1857, only Parliament could grant a divorce, and did so at about the rate of two a year. In 1937 Humorist-Novelist A. P. Herbert got through a divorce bill which...
...realities of a vixen wife and two ugly daughters. In the end his foundling secretary-who turns out to be his son-has carried off his dream woman, and the general is left lonely in the dusk. But he soon enough finds a pretty new housemaid to steal out with into the darkness...
Arthritis Due to Injury. Caused either by a single severe injury or by endless repetition of minor, unnoticed injuries. Commonest examples: tennis elbow and housemaid's knee. Treatment: draining away water on the knee, heat, massage, X rays, Novocain injections and, in severe cases, surgery. Now usually curable...