Word: maids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some swap offers sound too good to be true. A resident of Turtle Cove, Jamaica, is willing to turn over his four-bedroom house with private beach, swimming pool set in a natural garden, car, dinghy and sailboat, plus the services of a butler, cook, maid and gardener. He wants in exchange a big-city apartment. And he will settle for any one of six cities-New York, London, Paris, Rome, Madrid and Geneva. But he is choosy. After thumbing through dozens of offers, he still has not found one sumptuous enough to suit him. Time is running short...
COULD there be a connection between history and the parlor maid, between civilization and nanny? It has been seriously suggested that Greece began to decline when it acquired too many servants. It was also suggested, long ago and no less earnestly, that the West is declining because it does not have enough servants. "Destroy the leisure class, and you destroy civilization," said J. P. Morgan, who defined the leisure class as those families who kept at least one "in help." J.P. will hardly be remembered as a dazzling social philosopher, a Spengler of Wall Street, but the question of leisure...
...Angeles area, live-in help commands $225-$350 a month, plus a private bath, a TV set, and usually the use of a car. A suburbanite of Chicago's North Shore, whose husband earns $30,000 to $40,000 a year, pays her live-in maid $60 a week for six days, plus room and board, for which she keeps the house clean and stays with the children when the parents go out. The mother makes the beds, cooks, does the dishes and much of the gardening, takes care of the children. Once a week an additional maid comes...
...large in London who stumbles into a house occupied by three oddball bachelors. One is a potent pipsqueak (Ray Brooks), mysteriously endowed with the knack of "making it" with the opposite sex. One is a pallid, reticent schoolteacher (Michael Crawford), for whom the way of a Mod with a maid remains ever beyond reach. The third (Donal Donnelly) is a simple eccentric who spends his energy painting the walls of his room white...
...Cripple Creek gold and Utah copper, and poured millions into the hotel and the surrounding area. Rates at the Broadmoor are fairly reasonable by luxury hotel standards, starting at $17 a day single and $22 double and progressing up to $160 a day for a luxury suite with maid and cook...