Word: maides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clerks. When both are discouraged by rumors of her misbehavior, she marries the family solicitor who has behaved more generously in the apparent emergency. Far funnier than the almost morbidly polite comicalities supplied by this situation are those contributed by the iceman (James Gleason) and Marie Prevost as a maid-of-all-work whose comments are ponderous, amazing. Sample-her rebuff to Iceman Gleason: "All I want
...maintains that it can not run the House Plan on less than it will receive next year from the rentals. The rents pay the upkeep of the buildings, depreciation, all furnishings, hired help, and indirectly cover the costs of the tutors rooms. The tutor must himself pay for the maid service. The libraries are in most cases gifts from individuals or the University while the dining halls are supposed to be self-supporting. Another large Item which the rent covers is a kind of insurance covering from 1-2 to 3-4 of one percent on the investment which...
...Philadelphia Ethel Borden, socialite daughter of Mrs. J. Borden Harriman of Washington, D. C., became so ill she could not, for a time, continue her first role as a Broadway actress?that of a maid in The Truth Game, with Billie Burke. Substituted for her was Patricia Ziegfeld, 14, daughter of Actress Burke & Producer Florenz Ziegfeld, who happened to be visiting her mother during a school holiday...
...Lampoon, the CRIMSON offers its heartiest congratulations, but can not refrain from wondering how much this is a case of Shanghal Jester. The Daily maid has made the man from Mt. Auburn Street's bed; now they must lie in it. Old Miss Primson of Plympton Street will hasten her knitting...
...rising of the villagers and peasants, His Majesty the People led by the now legless rascal Peter, and their march upon the Prince's estate, where they hang the Prince's dogs one by one (including lovely Svietlana!) and then hang the Prince and rape the maid and after ransacking the house, set it on fire. Life is then all confused and hungry and bitter and terrifying. Siedoi travels hither and yon-"His Excellency the Inspector of Railroads" he comes to be known as- until one day Fedka, who has withdrawn from the topsy-turvy People...