Word: maides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ladies All. Place a wealthy wench-conscious young bachelor in an isolated studio in the purlieus of Westport, Conn. Put within grasping distance a plump French maid, an unsatisfied wife, and a beauteous blonde sculptress whom he has long and vainly loved. Have one of the three pay an incognito midnight visit to his chamber. Next morning have each vehemently deny, then reluctantly admit, his charge. The result: pleasant theatrical fare for a summer evening. Ladies All is a doctored U. S. version of Rumanian Prince Antoine Bibesco's Who. Musicomedian Walter Woolf, in his debut as a legitimate...
Some of his cases: the General, dying manfully of hardening of the arteries; Martha Purefoy, desiccated old maid who should have married him; Lady Cotterick, bullying Lady Bountiful, and her neurotic wreck of a son, only partly rebuilt by plastic surgery; Emily, the Doctor's lifelong love, who tells him today she is dying of cancer, having found time for it at last. All day as he goes his rounds he is his own worst case, for he is waiting for a letter which will give the results of an examination on himself, which he thinks will tell...
...night and strike matches to get a better view of the house and gardens, the pool and the tennis court. I used to have to get up at 3:45 every morning to go through all my mail. I had dozens of begging letters. An unfortunate old maid wondered whether I would pay her $50 a month out of the vast sum [$40,000] Mr. Coolidge was to pay me. I even received 18 proposals. There might have been more, but a newspaper published an awful picture of me and the proposals ceased...
...beautiful chair upholstered in brocaded silk. An arm had been chipped from a bit of statuary Mme Clore had brought from Italy. A moustache had been pencilled on the lip of her late husband's oil portrait. Seven glasses were broken. Three spoons were missing. The second maid had been seduced. The cook had quit. "The press had been entertained...
...humorless, cranky old maid was Emily Dickinson. Hers was feminine intelligence at its keenest, and many a masculine ponderosity drew her inner smile. Said she: "I believe the love of God may be taught not to seem like bears." Unable to discover the Devil, she concluded: "He must be making war on some other nation." Her definition of poetry is famed among present-day poets: "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire ever can warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head...