Word: maides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Santa Barbara (Calif.) hotel a maid threw a bundle of Mrs. John McGill's dirty linen down a laundry chute to the basement four stories below. The bundle contained Mrs. McGill's infant, eight months old, who was unharmed...
...gather outside the tall iron fence not long after dawn. About 8 a. m. a rumor escaped mysteriously from the Palace that the Sovereign had risen from his Royal and Imperial bed. Half an hour later he and Queen Mary were said, on the high authority of a scullery maid, to be eating savory kippers. About 9 a. m. the patient, patriotic crowd learned that "the King is examining congratulatory telegrams and cablegrams from all over the world"?this from an important, reliable equerry. Denser and denser grew the crowd, but with no ill-mannered clamor for Their Majesties...
...notion that the calory demand of the brain is proportionate to its labor, is false. An oyster cracker or a half-peanut would sustain Albert Einstein's brain while doing intensive work on his field equations for one hour, the same number of calories would furnish a parlor maid only energy enough to dust a desk for five minutes...
...heart with his own revolver which he clutches in his hand. It is apparently a clear case of suicide, and yet there seems to be no motive. It is known that he wrote a letter a few minutes before his death and that the letter was posted by the maid. The police work on the theory that the letter may hold the clue-the hidden motive. The press believe that in exposing the secret lives of the dead man and his wife, the truthful reasons for his shuffling off will out. The police must discover a motive. The press must...
...Note: "Biddy" is listed in standard dictionaries, and according to the definitions given is in no sense a disparaging term for "maid". Certainly no disparagement was intended...