Word: maids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.--Williams College students, whose rooms and beds once were tidied up daily by maids, must now tend to the chores themselves because school officials have dumped the maid service...
...long way to go. The Reporter's night-life writer, George Christy, often requires people giving a party to pay his freelance photographers' fees in exchange for coverage in his column. The paper's recording-industry columnist, Dianne Bennett, a former Beverly Hills meter maid who is paid $ 100 or so a week, is known for using her Reporter platform to skewer her enemies, sometimes bending the facts to suit her case. Staffer Hank Grant routinely attributes items to "my studio spy Onda Lotalot" and "New York Spy Luce Lipp" in his daily column. He also wishes...
Mexico's economic crisis is not just a matter of concern for big-city bankers. It has also hit Maria Luisa de Lopez, the mother of seven children, who has illegally crossed the Rio Grande in search of a day's work as a maid in El Paso. Said she: "Potatoes, beans and chili peppers-that's all we can afford to eat. There's no meat, eggs or milk for us. I'm giving my children only one meal...
...when he spotted the ashtray. He smashed it and, at 7:15 a.m., entered the royal bedroom carrying a shard. The policeman stationed outside the door had gone off duty at 6 a.m. The footman who relieved him, by custom, was walking the Queen's corgis. Her maid was working near by but with doors closed so as not to disturb the sleeping monarch...
Thus, when Queen Elizabeth awoke, saw Fagan and pressed the button to an alarm bell outside her door, no one heard it. A telephone call to the palace operator for help was forwarded to the police, but none was forthcoming; six minutes later, she called again. She and the maid, who had come into the bedroom, led Fagan into a pantry in search of cigarettes. Returning with the corgis, the footman kept him there smoking until police, as a result of the second call, finally appeared...