Word: maids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...busier than anybody else in showing how deucedly comic he is, and no doubt that's the way Roman comedy really was played; I, however, was horribly enervated by it. It also includes Lynn Milgrim, a glorious courtesan in net stockings and high heels, and Kendra Stearns, her maid, who assumes a pleasantly nearsighted stare every time she is confronted with an unpleasant situation...
...Mikhail carries around 4 billion francs that the Czar gave him "as a sacred trust." come the counterrevolution. As of 1927, a sly Bolshevik commissar (Alexander Scourby) is trailing Mikhail for the money, and Tatiana proposes that they give the Red the slip by signing on as maid and butler to an oil-rich American family...
...subject that Miss Hellman treats with particular humor and good sense is the uneasy relationship between post-ghetto Jews and Negroes. The play opens with Berney singin' on his guitar "De life of a nigger ain't much good..." a point to which the Halpern maid, who overhears him, speaks with some feeling. In a later scene, Berney urges social action on a Negro who mugs him, more or less to shut him up. As these two episodes perhaps suggest, there is considerable overlap in the construction. Since a scene or two might be cut in the process of tightening...
Perhaps never again will there be anything quite like the cool authority of an obiter dictum from Emily Post. On the proper dress of a lady's maid: "She never wears a cap, and bobbed hair would be most unsuitable." On the House with Limited Service: "The fact that you live in a house with two servants, or very well with only one, need not imply that your house lacks charm or even distinction . . ." But the world that turned on such fine points as How to Pay a Visit to a Lady Who Has No Maid, and The Manner...
Follow it Amy did, by including a chapter in her book on the servantless household, even though her own staff numbers six-three secretaries, one housekeeper, one maid, and an odd-jobs man. Thrice divorced and the mother of three sons, Amy Vanderbilt lives and writes in her century-old brownstone on Manhattan's East Side, where she does "quite a lot of entertaining and much of my own cooking...