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...finished his British sentence and was ready to take over things again. But the unexpected happened at long last: one of the girls talked. Ill, exhausted and unwanted after ten years' labor for the Messinas, 39-year-old Edna Kallman told the police that Attilio hired a maid to watch her, and to knock on her bedroom door if she spent more than ten minutes with a client. Once, when she complained of having to work daily, in sickness and in health, he shouted: "I'm tired of this! I could get a 17-year-old who would...
...Seesaw. The way of an Omaha man with a Greenwich Village maid is often funny and bittersweet...
...Antoine Montés came to the savagely provincial winegrowing town to claim an inheritance, the narrator recalls, his memory distorted by a sense of tragedy lurking in his background. The newcomer's father was once a prosperous winegrower. His mother surprised her husband making love to a maid and, with her baby still unborn, retreated grimly to the distant home. From such earth, Author Simon grows a strange, sour wine...
...give a first, rough literary form to the western story. By 1890 the "flesh-times in Kansas" were a thing of the past. Wild Bill Hickok had been tamed by Writer-Promoter Ned Buntline, and was playing in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show ("Fear not, fair maid, you are safe at last with Wild Bill, who is ever ready to risk his life, and die if need be, in defense of helpless womanhood"). But the legend of the two-gun terror lingered on, and in 1902, when Owen Wister published The Virginian, the legend "came from...
...crash, Gunther's delivered a $70,000 sable coat to a customer, needlessly worried about payment (the customer settled in 60 days). Later it sold a shopper two sable coats, one for herself and one for her sister. As a token of esteem, the shopper bought her maid a mink. The bill: $107,000. In 1949 Gunther's merged with an other old-line furrier, Jaeckel, Inc., founded...