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...public-relations officer of the base, to whom falls the task of handling Lady Moe's correspondence, transport and social arrangements, openly lamented the day she left Africa. Said he: "I joined the Air Forces to serve my country and look at me. I'm nothing but nursemaid to a goddamned jackass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Lady Moe | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...nursemaid reading a bedtime story to enthralled five-year-olds ("Coked to the gills, Beardon lunged toward the supine figure on the red-plush couch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Laughing Tiger | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

This is my problem. I'm the mother, sister, companion, nursemaid, sparring partner and wife of a jazz clarinet. Should I continue to live with this sink of iniquity and listen to his lousy rendition of Baby, Won't You Please etc. or should I divorce him, marry a shoe salesman or magazine writer, and listen to Sweet Adeline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 2, 1943 | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...America's No. 1 Curmudgeon, or Sour Puss" was born (1874) in Pennsylvania, the second of seven children. "I was raised to dust and sweep and wash dishes and knead dough and baste the beef and turn (and burn) the toast and flip flapjacks. ... I was pinch-hit nursemaid, wood chopper, fire builder and tender, chicken executioner-more useful than ornamental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Veteran | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...Paris, Barbara found Georges. Georges, a fascinating footpad, was so closely watched by the police that when he became Barbara's nursemaid she was "the best-guarded child in Paris." Away from Barbara, Georges made his living peddling heroin, stealing old masters, putting cotton in public telephones to prevent coins from being returned. Disguised as a Hindu, Georges once robbed a Swiss bank and a French newspaper, ran the story as reported by its "special envoy" at Basle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Burglars & Bougainvillea | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

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