Word: maids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lowell House Music Society which had started staging production in 1938, followed up its tentative universal of Pergolesi's with a spirited and well-oiled performance of Menotti's The Old Maid the Thief, under the direction of Richard B. Hines...
...Dubuffet barely escaped being the same. He tried painting for a while, then gave it up in disgust because he decided he was only imitating his Paris friends, Suzanne Valadon, Raoul Dufy and Fernand Léger. He went back to selling wine, got "a wife, furniture, a maid, a brother-in-law, a car, kids." Then one day before World War II he started to paint again. "My wife didn't like it ... She disappeared. Bon voyage! The brother-in-law disappeared...
Unashamed at her own unwed state (she lost seven jobs as a maid because she "used to slip out of the house at night and make love"), Carolina is scornful of men. "Today is Father's Day," she wrote. "What a ridiculous...
COCA-COLA and MINUTE MAID are talking merger. In first major diversification move in its 74-year history, Coca-Cola offers to swap about 900,000 shares of its stock (current value: $59 million) for all of Minute Maid's stock at the rate of 2.2 shares of Minute Maid for one of Coca-Cola...
Seen through the eyes of Gussie Millinder, a humorless but perceptive old maid, the family's degeneration is pathetic. Mean little descriptions of poor Newport hostesses whose husbands had to make do with fortunes of only $1,000,000 give the neat, well-mannered prose an occasional touch of irony. But young debutantes who sugar their very small talk with references to Louis XI (not XIII or XIV), and butler who tell dinner guests when their hostes wants them to switch conversational part ners, all lend a persistent air of unreality almost as if the author were intent...