Word: maides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maid entered the room...
...Talbot) and Karen Morley (Mrs. Talbot), supported by such $1,000-a-week celebrities as Phillips Holmes, Jean Hersholt, Madge Evans, Grant Mitchell and the late Louise Closser Hale, perform brilliantly and avoid each others' toes. Good shot: Kitty Packard making up her mind to give her maid a bracelet. Paddy, the Next Best Thing (Fox) is very clearly Fox's notion of the next best thing to Metro's Peg 0' My Heart. It is an idyll of the Irish countryside, dripping with Hollywood blarney, Janet Gaynor's girlish charm and terms of endearment...
...nation." "The unmarried woman earning her living has stood out like a shining star," said Judge Allen to her sisters in Chicago. "I do not know what many a family would have done if it had not been for that refuge from their problems, the 'old maid' in the family. When married women were being turned out of their jobs because they were married, and when fathers and bread winners lost their employment ... it was the salary of the old maid in thousands of homes that kept them going." Next evening in the ballroom was a "famous firsts...
Twenty-two years ago Composer Strauss wrote another opera whose plot depended upon disguise and mistaken identities. In Rosenkavalier, the most charming and successful of his works, a young Austrian nobleman dresses as a lady's maid, makes a monkey out of a lecherous old baron and after a series of richly comic episodes wins the girl whom the baron intended for himself. Arabella follows Der Rosenkavalier in many of its details. The impecunious old Count puts on a drinking act as blatant if not half so funny as old Baron Ochs's. A richly-scored waltz dominates...
...Some years ago, I referred to politics as the lovely lady in the parlor, and economics as the kitchen maid who did the work: I had hoped that the kitchen would be able to discipline itself. Indeed we were making progress in that direction, but there was always a small minority who refused co-operation and were unwilling to accept selfdiscipline. They represented rugged individualism at its worst. . . . So business having failed to discipline itself, I see no escape from some direction and control by the lady in the parlor, but I am not willing to turn the kitchen over...