Word: laundresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Safe Faces. Such restrictions limit stories almost entirely to three types: 1) a wife's (or husband's, or sister's, or laundress') eye view of how the popular favorite "really lives"; 2) the shopgirl-to-star Cinderella story; 3) discreet gossip-usually handled (for up to $1,000 a story) by Hedda Hopper, Louella Parsons, Sidney Skolsky or some other expert big enough to flout studio censorship...
That done, the Met and the Modern got down to the serious business of swapping some of their incongruities. First to cross the border was to be Daumier's Laundress. It was now 86 years old, and an obvious "classic"; the Modern would turn it over to the Met. In exchange the Met would deliver Maillol's bronze Chained Action and Picasso's 1906 Portrait of Gertrude Stein, which Gertrude had hopefully willed to the Met (TIME...
Fortunately, though he can't quite save the day, Cuckoo Clark notably brightens the evening. Hurling himself headlong into any role he can find a costume for -monk, chancellor, Foreign Legionnaire, laundress-Bobby leers at the actresses, spits on the plot, and keeps hurrying nowhere...
...prime rib roasts 15? a lb., chickens and lobsters 30? apiece. Excellent Haitian coffee was 12? a lb., sugar 6¢:, and there was no limit on anything. As a matter of course, an American household was staffed by five competent servants-houseboy, cook, maid, yardboy and laundress. Total monthly wages: around...
...laundress and local loan-shark, Malinda Sprouse, padded from house to house all night; she collected every outstanding debt in town...