Word: maides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Katrin has time to think about her misdemeanors. While Dr. Fane is busy treating cholera-stricken natives, she sits at home, listening to the babble of her Chinese maid who calls her "Missy" and a cockney resident named Waddington (Forrester Harvey). By the time the doctor has relented so far as to offer to send Katrin back to Hongkong, she has decided to stay in Mei-tan-fu as a nurse. Dr. Fane is wounded in a riot and at the same time the attaché arrives in Mei-tan-fu to see how Katrin is making out. She gives...
...dinners and night clubs." During this period of traipsing around Europe her granddaughter was practically turned over to Mrs. Morgan. Only education Gloria got from her mother, swore the child's garrulous Irish nurse, was in how to mix a cocktail. She might also, suggested a pert French maid, have picked up some of Mrs. Vanderbilt's "very dirty" picture books. The nurse said she and Mrs. Morgan had peeked on Prince Gottfried zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg lying on a bed with Mrs. Vanderbilt. The maid said she had seen Mrs. Vanderbilt and the Marchioness of Milford Haven doing...
...momentary passion develops into an unrealizable love. "A Night At Sea", the meeting of two men who loved the same woman and the unexpected unemotional calm with which they discuss their life with her, and "A Simple Peasant", delineation of the jealous love of a simple peasant for the maid-servant and mistress of his master...
...That reminds me," she replied, "of the story about the lady who complained to her Irish maid that the dust on the piano was so thick that she could write her name in it. The maid," continued the biddy, "answered right back, 'My, the advantages of a good education...
...mere success story Wells's career makes stimulating reading. His father was a small shopkeeper and professional cricketer; his mother, a lady's maid who rose to be a housekeeper. Young Bertie, after a scattered schooling, started real life as a draper's apprentice. He hated the job, did it badly. He liked school teaching a little better, being a student at the South Kensington Normal School of Science even more. But as a science student he found so many things to interest and annoy him that at the end of three years he flunked, had to go back...