Word: maides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Stahl supposed that if a better known actress took the part of the deserted sweetheart, cinemaddicts would have difficulty in believing that a hero could so easily forget her. She liked her work in that picture so little that she refused to see it, finally sent her colored maid Lisbeth to investigate. Lisbeth reported the picture was wonderful and had made her cry. Said Margaret Sullavan: "Now I know it must be terrible." When the late Lilyan Tashman congratulated her, Margaret Sullavan thanked her curtly. Said Cinemactress Tashman: "Someone should teach that girl some manners." If Margaret Sullavan lacks...
...purchase of bank stock, had known nothing about the transactions until a Government agent called upon her. The judge smiled indulgently, the jury gossiped in whispers as she stepped from the stand. Defendant Harriman pretended to be asleep. Blue-eyed Peggy Hopkins Joyce, four times married, arrived with a maid and her lawyer. A society editor noted ecstatically that her eyelashes were tinted with blue cosmetic. Her testimony, substantially the same as Miss Talmadge's, delivered in an amiable socialite voice, lasted four minutes. Mr. Harriman managed to keep awake...
Headline--"Last Sale for "The Maid of Orleans...
...which an exhausted undergraduate body will accord her seems more doubtful. We are quite sure that she can't supply the relaxation that Zasu Pitts and her privy chamber would but she has her good points. Joan Crawford, who makes a very lovely Sadie, plays a demanding part; a maid in a wealthy household, the unfortunate heroine of a love affair which doesn't quite come off a chorus girl, the wife of a millionaire and finally a sweet young thing. For her suitors, there is Franchot Tone who outrages her sense of fair play; Gene Raymond whose faithlessness forces...
...occasion "I broke my fast. I was painting one of my apartments, and I was afraid the fumes might turn my stomach. So I drank a bottle of milk to settle my stomach." That day he gained 2 lb. The mother lost 3 lb., the father 2 lb., the maid 3 lb., two of the children 3 lb. each, a third child 1½ lb. Only the 4-year-old son retained his weight when the Rev. Fletcher D. Parker of Hartford, Conn, fed his family for a week at a total cost of $2.24. That sum bought potatoes, pork...