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Word: maides (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Angriest Jew in all Berlin last week was His Excellency the Soviet Ambassador Jacques Suritz. Under the decrees neither his nor any other "Jewish family" in Germany may keep a non-Jewish maid less than 45 years old unless she was in their service before the Nurnberg Laws were passed, in which case she must be not less than 35. A family of Jewesses only is not a "Jewish family" and may keep whatever maids they like, but one Jew in the house is considered to imperil the German maid's morals and the decree becomes operative. Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Paradise for Blackmailers | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

...great pair of scissors is provided to cut all Gordian knots. Realmleader Adolf Hitler has overruling power in all respects. As a one-man Jew's Supreme Court he can dispense such exceptional favors as permitting Soviet Ambassador Suritz to keep an apple-cheeked, 16-year-old scullery maid. Unprintable were the explosions of wrath in the Corps Diplomatique and consular services of foreign powers throughout Germany, but up to this week no Ambassador or Minister had been instructed to protest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Paradise for Blackmailers | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

...contract fiend or even if your tasters run only as far as Old Maid, you might be interested to know that there is a pack of Hindustani cards in the archives of Widener which was invented by a king's wife to make him stop pulling hairs out of his beard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Card Game Originally Devised to Keep Hindustani King From Pulling Beard | 11/1/1935 | See Source »

Concluded Pundit Kent: "No one can read Mr. Amick's account without wondering what is to happen when the $50,000,000 gives out; how, once started, the Government is ever to get out of this business of being the national nurse maid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: I Don't Know | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

...globe-trotting "Nellie Bly." Her first husband, a newshawk named Orlow Black, died. She has long been separated from her second, the late Publisher Fred Bonfils' Brother Charles. Her two sons are dead, a daughter, married. Today she lives alone, except for her secretary and a Cherokee Indian maid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Annie Laurie | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

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