Word: maides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without opposition, prompting Will Rogers to say: "America is a land of opportunity and don't ever forget it. ... There was elected to a very high office . . . just a plain, pleasant-looking, fat (and enjoying it), commonsense woman. ... I guess from her name, 'Miss,' that she is an old maid, but, darn it, I just liked her looks in the paper this morning and I believe she could teach these young modern heathens of ours some sense...
...suspects as follows: a patently fake male fortuneteller, a slick actor in a dinner coat, a pretty little girl who steals an emerald ring, a butler who does not know his place, a young millionaire who drives a roadster and is anxious to get out of town, a maid servant, a man who mumbles indignantly, a beachcombing artist with sneering enunciation, a tough blonde who incites Detective Chan to aphorism. After several aphorisms (sample: "Death is a black camel who kneels unbidden at the gate of every man"), suitable rebukes to an overenthusiastic assistant, and three narrow escapes which...
...Rouen, three weeks ago, a girl named Juliette Brebant played the part of St. Joan of Arc in the 500th anniversary celebration of the Maid's martyrdom. Climax of the proceedings came when pious Mlle Brebant was bound to a stake and had Roman candles and Chinese fire set off about her feet. In a high state of religious ecstasy, she fainted. Last week in a Paris hospital she was still delirious. Doctors despaired of her life...
...women's golf champion; and Edwin H. Vare Jr., 35, of Philadelphia, son of the late State Senator Edwin H. Vare, nephew of U. S. Senator-reject William Scott ("Boss") Vare; in the garden of Mr. & Mrs. George Wallen, friends of Golfer Collett, in Greenwich, Conn. Maid of honor was Bernice Wall, golfer of Oshkosh, Wis. Bride & groom, who met while golfing ten years ago, went off to honeymoon at Murray Bay, Canada. They plan to live in Overbrook, Pa., to continue golfing...
Marie was a Parisian maid-of-all-work but a country girl at heart. She worked for the Deloses, an avaricious jeweler and his discontented wife, was in love with Babylas, a mulatto chauffeur. Babylas' motives were neither pure nor unmixed: he took Marie for lack of something better, and hoped through her to get at her master's jewels. When Babylas told Marie his scheme she was horrified, carried her fear so openly on her face that M. Delos took it for an invitation and complacently accepted it. Marie, servant and a yes-girl, wrung her hands and said...