Word: nursemaid
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...Schwenck Gilbert's own infancy must have gone into this carefree jingle. Aged two (and known to his doting parents as "Bab"), Gilbert was being wheeled in his pram along an Italian country road when the local bandits appeared on the scene. They tipped their hats to the nursemaid, suavely persuaded her that they had been sent by father Gilbert to fetch his son, and disappeared into the mountains with Bab (in later life, Gilbert insisted that he remembered the scenery as being very fine). The bandits demanded, and promptly received, a ransom...
...party were her seven-year-old daughter Edda (named for Edda Musso lini Ciano), a nursemaid, a German lieu tenant colonel and his orderly. To officers of the U.S. 19th Infantry Division, said a New York Times dispatch, the lieutenant colonel presented an order from an un named SHAEF major general, requesting that Frau Goring be given all assistance...
...soldiers obediently helped Frau GÖring, her daughter and nursemaid move into one of the GÖrings' many villas...
...drums go bang, the cymbald clang, Cas is a father, he breaks one engagement and makes two, abducts his own child, and relaxes his Dr. Wassell expression to play nursemaid to his daughter in a cheap hotel room. As in all comedy everybody lives happily with a capital slap...
...worked as a waitress in Childs, in a sweatshop, as a nursemaid, a salesgirl, wardrobe mistress in a Minsky burlesque, and for 26 months "wrote, peddled, rewrote, repeddled, without so much as one word of encouragement." Then one day in 1912 she met Editor "Bob" Davis of Munsey's Magazine. " 'Fannie Hurst,' he said, after reading a story I came peddling, 'you can write!' " In the next 31 years she wrote 22 books...