Word: maides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrested early in the War spent a year in the water-soaked mines of New gate prison, escaped, wasted the rest of his life wandering through the woods looking for his wife. Genteel Mrs. Demooth, most cultivated lady of Deerfield Settlement, went raving mad, shouted Biblical curses at her maid. Feeble-minded Nancy picked up with a raiding British soldier, bore his child in the woods during an attack, was saved by an Indian who took her for his squaw. Organized warfare in the wilderness was a prolonged nightmare, with militiamen quarreling with regulars, regulars making more enemies by attacking...
...many things I've done were not understood except by my mother, who taught me where real direction comes from. ... I had been a nut for years, for not leaving my wonderful mother for some man, to save myself from being an old maid. My mother was called by G. H. Q. very suddenly. Without asking for it, I was given the knowledge, as mother was leaving, that where there is real devotion there is no parting. While others broke down, I was the only one capable of handling all details of what I called mother...
...asked for a helpmeet who would understand me. He came and was young enough to be as inexperienced in the fundamentals of mating as Old Maid Janis was at 42. Result: Four years of two being one completely, and now an understanding of what is what. He is young enough to make a new life for himself, if orders are such...
...essential adjunct to judicial office? Does not the Supreme Court grind out thousands of divorces annually upon the stereotyped sin of the same big blonde attired in the same black silk pajamas? Is not access to the chamber of love quite uniformly obtained by announcing that it is a maid bringing towels or a messenger boy with an urgent telegram...
...than a cliche in modern dress. Its interest does not lie in the love affair but in its exposition of the complicated backstairs politics of a big household. Wroxton's perpetual quarrel with the cook, his sly methods of bullying the chauffeur, his espionage operations with the downstairs maid, his scavenging the household's pay envelopes and extending his influence into the private lives of his employers are a competent addition to current institutional screen drama...