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...lovesick Medea almost 2,500 years ago. In the centuries since, many another nubile Greek girl, along with her father, has complained of this state of things; in Greece an adequate dowry is a far more important prerequisite to marriage than a pretty face. In Salonika a weary housemaid recently made the trip to the altar after having scratched for seven long years to raise the $500 demanded as a marriage settlement. A shepherd from the slopes of Mt. Olympus turned his true love down cold when her father produced only $600 of a promised $800. Even...
Magsaysay's men uncovered enough evidence to indict Lacson and 26 henchmen for murder. The trial began in January 1952. but for one reason or another, during Quirino's presidency, it was frequently interrupted (during one interlude, Lacson was convicted of raping his housemaid and sentenced to eight years). But the Padilla case was not forgotten. In his campaign for the presidency last year, Magsaysay would climax his speeches by declaring emotionally: "When I carried the body of Moises Padilla in my arms, it was not the body of Padilla but the body of the humble people...
...Green Parrot. In A Simple Heart, Flaubert takes a plain-as-rain spinster housemaid and erodes her placid life with tragedies. From dawn to dusk, Felicité slaves for the Aubain family, all of whom take her toil for granted. She loves her young nephew like a son, but he dies at sea. Desolate, she clings to the delicate Aubain daughter only to see the girl die of TB. Felicité swaddles her grief in piety and finds a pet in a green parrot. After a few years the parrot dies too, and Felicité has it stuffed. Time robs...
First Sight. Soon after that, Maria de Jesus came into El Sapo's life. She was a housemaid, serving two years in the women's section for jewel theft, and had heard of El Sapo's fame from the other girls. It was love at first sight. After she was paroled she came back every visiting day, and El Sapo soon popped the question...
...remaining $4,163.70 was scrupulously accounted for, except for one item of $294 for "miscellaneous"-and a $2.25 error in bookkeeping. This was considerably at variance with the Post's implication that Nixon had used the money to buy a house and hire a housemaid...