Word: housemaids
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...Bailey Court, London, last fortnight, one Robert Williams, carpenter, said he had killed an Irish housemaid in Hyde Park because he had been seized with an epileptic fit during which he saw the face of Lon Chaney, famed U. S. cinemactor. On the day before the killing, Carpenter Williams said he had viewed the film, London After Midnight, featuring Mr. Chaney...
...after day the 3,000 constantly changing auditors have sat breathless under the spell of Krylenko, as he brought son to implicate father, blandished brother into betraying brother, and lashed an old technician who was accused of accomplishing the death of his housemaid until the wench suddenly turned up last week...
...citizens of Sweden do not think so. Their lives are passed in a land where "service" is not advertised but given. From a Swedish telephone operator is expected the sort of unstinted satisfaction which a Swedish housemaid gives by shining the family shoes every day, doing the household wash and energetically scrubbing such members of the family as may deign to take a bath. Last week the telephone companies in Stockholm and Gothenburg announced a new era of luxurious telephoning typically Swedish...
Find Daddy. A frantic farce, about a baby that nobody wanted but everybody claimed, lasted just one week. It was perhaps the loudest performance this year and certainly the most athletic. Noise and perspiration, however, could not prevail. There was, nevertheless, one glowing line. The paternity of the housemaid's baby had just been fastened upon two married and apparently blameless males. "And to think," muttered the horrified heroine, "that both of them are Harvard...
Detectives, despatched by the Bank of France to Amsterdam, found that the housemaid was receiving counterfeit bills regularly from her family in Hungary. They discovered that her father was the valet of the celebrated Prince Ludwig Windisch-Graetz...