Word: maides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rate to be charged is $5, and is solely for maid service; no hot water will be available in any of the Houses. Each unit will accommodate its own members only, and the same parietal rules will be in force as during the college year...
...aware of his cuckoldry, is expected to arrive soon. Just ahead of him arrives the great Otto Zeigen, the Rumanian millionaire (Mr. Perkins). That gives the amorists their chance to trick the husband once again. Actress Gish sets out to ensnare Zeigen, Actor Hull tries to charm a kitchen maid (porcelain-faced Jean Arthur of the films). Neither has much success at first. Zeigen, it turns out, is a man of frugal habits. He is ready for an onion sandwich and bed. The kitchen maid does not think Actor Hull "very interesting." However, next morning, Zeigen gets and willingly takes...
...enjoy the production at the Copley Theatre this week. Although distinctly different from the usual run, "The Silent Answer" is no play for one whose nerves are not in the best of health. However, there is enough comic relief strewn here and there in the steps of Annie, the maid, to make a worthwhile evening for many...
...esthetes stranded in Europe at the outbreak of the War; a trip with his wife Fania Marinoff to the Bahamas, where he saw an orgiastic revival meeting of black Holy Jumpers. Sophisticate Van Vechten wondered what Huysmans would have thought of such goings-on. Black Priscilla, maid at his hotel, had no such complicated thoughts: "I'm a Baptist. ... I don't hold by those jumpers. The females jump, and the males jump after them...
...comedy which is not quite a farce. The scene is a courtroom but the principal character is not the actress (Jill Esmond) who, charged with murder, occupies the defendant's chair. Heroine is a gaunt and fluttering matron, Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane (Edna Mae Oliver) who arrives, with her maid and chauffeur, to serve on the jury. She salutes the judge, whom she has met socially. Her conduct during the trial borders on disdain, if not contempt, of court. In the jury room Mrs. Crane shows that she has a better notion of the case than her associates. When...