Word: maides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then they get jobs as butler and maid, signing their own references, and each enslaves in the bonds of love the members of the family of the opposite sex. All is exceedingly merry until Commissar Gorotchenko appears. He has been immoderately unkind to both of them, and they pelt him with clever invective when he interviews them in the kitchen...
...until two years later that they met, on a staircase backstage in Manhattan's Hudson Theatre, where they were both rehearsing for Maid of Money. That was the first of the 21 plays in which they have since appeared together. At their meeting courtly Alfred Lunt bent to kiss Miss Fontanne's hand, flopped down the staircase. The play tried out in Washington, flopped too. The romance was more durable. They remained in Washington with George C. Tyler's company, played there in A Young Man's Fancy, and parted, Miss Fontanne to Chicago with...
...newly-elected Benjamin Fairless hustled home from the directors' meeting to his suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, was so agog he forgot to collect his key at the desk on the ground floor. Finding the door locked and his wife out, Ben Fairless asked a passing maid to let him in. Suspiciously she refused. So did another. "Hell!" snapped President-elect Fairless, "This is a fine pickle. Nobody knows me around here...
...LONG WAY HOME-Sylvia Chatfield Bates - Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Lengthy odyssey of a beautiful upState New York old maid, whose luck, thanks to a pioneer inheritance of pagan stamina, turns into an old maid's dream when...
...street four newsreel cars and 250 people-reporters, cameramen, and bareheaded neighbors were lined up. At the house next door Mrs. Margaret H. Cox was giving a "Black radio party" with 18 guests, obligingly sent out her maid with coffee for the press. Daniel Goodacre, 13, begged the used flash bulb from a photographer who snapped the arriving Justice, explaining: "This is the biggest thing that's ever happened out here, even counting the time a man shot himself in his garage and that big brush fire...