Word: housemaids
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...Wells' early novel of the same name, have discarded much of its pungent satire, playing safe with more drama. They set forth the earthly visit of an angel, intent on spreading sweetness and light, who finds himself gradually steeped in sticky mortality. He seeks tolerance for a lovelorn housemaid left with a war baby, lashes a war profiteer who forces his attentions on her, agitates the lady of the manor hitherto accustomed to agitating others...
Finally the constricted English village whose smug hyprocrisy has been shattered by the angel decides he must go. He does, in an Elijah-like blaze of glory, being burnt while saving the housemaid's brat. Thereupon everything turns out to be just a dream of a country vicar, going up in smoke...
Wilbur.--"Liliom" by Franz Molnar. Joseph Schildkraut is a captivating "roughneck" and Eva LeGallienne the pathetic housemaid who loves him through ten scenes of an unusual play. Humor, pathos, farce, and tragedy mingle...
...sentimental affairs of the 17-year-old Bobble Wheeler and his sister Cora, who has just attained the flapper age of sweet sixteen. The play is a comedy of incidents in the life of the Wheeler family; Bobble is burdened with the dark crime of having kissed the housemaid in "a moment of sensuosity," as he tragically confesses, while passionately in love with the governess, Miss Pinney,--"the most spiritual-minded woman in the world"; Cora is obstinately devoted to an elderly grasswidower who uses her to shield his own unwelcome love for Miss Pinney; Mrs. Wheeler suspects her tortured...
...feel very chilly, and, going into the house, study my phrase-book a few minutes, then ask the housemaid, in excellent Norwegian, to build a fire. She goes into a closet, and, taking a huge cheese from the shelf, sets it down before me inquiringly. I point angrily at the stove, and say "Fire," with as correct a pronunciation as possible, at the same time pushing the cheese contemptuously aside. She goes to the stove, opens the door, and looks in stupidly, but, seeing no fire there, shakes her head. I tell her in English that I know there...