Word: maides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After History class came back and found the maid cleaning the room. As my roommate was out, I thought it a good time to ask her name. But as she kept her head bent over her work, I decided it would be a little foolish to disturb...
...maid used the vacuum cleaner this morning, again spoiling my chance of learning her name. She said, "Good morning, Mr. Clay, may I come in?" Which greeting was more cordial than any I have received from the people in this dormitory...
Late tonight my roommate still had my shirt on. I finally asked him what we should call the maid, and he said: "Biddie." Tomorrow I must do some research to see if this is a peculiar New England appellation...
...Morland Graham) absentmindedness verges on the sublime, Daughter Frankie (Rosalyn Boulter) suffers from vestal restlessness, piano-playing Brother Dudley (Arthur Macrae) spouts Noel Coward and badgers stuffy Brother Claude (Richard Warner), who builds houses and does setting-up exercises. Clouds gather over the breakfast table when Gladys, the maid (Moya Nugent), is found crying near the sausages and Frankie reports she saw Claude coming out of the girl's room. Two acts and a fortnight later, just in time for the arrival of much-discussed and dreaded guests, the domestic weather settles fair...
Manhattan audiences that took the madcaps of You Can't Take It With You to their bosoms had at least a friendly nod for the funny Sycamores' British cousins. First acting prize went to Gladys Henson as the new maid, Beer, a name that suits her perfectly. Her getup, contortions, expressive voicelessness and eye-rolling, best described by what psychiatrists call "heavenly nystagmus," save an otherwise flat and conventional conclusion...