Word: maides
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lean and tall with a toothbrush mustache, the ascetic Schuman was a natural for the finance commission, where he served for 17 years. He ate cheap meals, prowled his offices snapping off lights. A lifelong bachelor, Schuman once answered the door of his Paris apartment wearing a maid's apron; he had been doing his own dusting...
Although he is well into his 30s, Pierre spends all his time in his room studying the astronomical charts that cover the walls and furniture. His preoccupation vexes Maman and Papa, who want him to get married. It also vexes like, the Swedish maid, but since she can speak no French (even her subtitles come out in Swedish), she can do nothing about it but look beautiful. One day Papa has a talk with Pierre-or thinks he does. But Pierre has his earplugs in, and the whole sound track is blanked out. Papa is seen enthusiastically drawing female forms...
...have a talent for smashing the Wedgwood, the wives of British soldiers and technicians, coming from a land where servants have vanished from all but the stateliest homes, tend to be even clumsier at handling the help. Wailed one sub-lieutenant's wife who recently hired her first maid: "I don't know whether to treat her as a servant or a sister...
...feel for criminals these days, Britain's sobersided Justice of the Peace & Local Government Review set about de-mything the most admired sneaks of them all, Robin Hood and his merry men. "Friar Tuck is certainly no example of how a High Churchman should behave," sniffed the Review. Maid Marian was "certainly no 'Maid.' " As for Robin, he was simply "an outlaw who had deserted his lawful wife for fun and games in the greenwood with Marian...
...seat 120 people. Each of the four bedrooms is designed to do double duty as a study, each has complete privacy, and each is near the kitchen. And the big thing about this investment of some $250,000 is that it was designed to be run without a maid. "With all those double-duty rooms," says Planner Pereira, "I thought we could each pitch in and do the minimum cleanup work that's needed." He thought wrong. The maid's name is Bertha...