Word: nursemaided
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Elisa Grey de Abalos, 94, widow of a prominent Chilean politician, is mad. The Santiago mansion over which she reigns is rotting. Her housekeepers get drunk. Her nursemaid turns thief, gets pregnant. And her only living relative, Grandson Don Andres, 54, is a cultured celibate who has made a career of reading French history and collecting walking sticks. To top it off, Elisa has a vocabulary astonishingly rich in four-letter words and an imagination so diabolical that most of her maids flee in horror. For all her madness, though, the old girl has a no-nonsense way of getting...
...Researchers at the Chase Manhattan Bank have played a new inning in the old game of calculating what a wife is worth. They figure that the average housewife works a 99.6-hour week, spending among other duties 44.5 hours as a nursemaid (at $1.25 an hour), 5.9 as a laundress (at $1.90), 13.1 hours as a cook (at $2.50). Even without overtime for work beyond 40 hours, the housewife's weekly pay would come to $159.34. Paid at competitive rates, most housewives would make as much as their husbands...
...real motives invisible for hundreds of pages. Mrs. Rockefeller arrived on the first day with her husband's state police bodyguard and Chrysler Imperial. She graciously smiled her way into battle in a blue sheath dress, bare legs and black flat-heeled shoes, accompanied by four lawyers, a nursemaid and Mrs. Peter Iselin, one of her Philadelphia cousins. Dr. Murphy, his new blonde wife in demure beige, said, "I can't smile." In they walked, past a wall plaque reading...
...mates-often so explicitly that the film was banned in Paris, of all places. What seemed objectionable to the family-minded French was dragging the children along as witnesses. Little eyes pop, come Sunday morning, when an unhappy husband steals down to the beach to attack a blonde, buxom nursemaid while she tends her flock. Inexplicably, this departure from form jolts the wife swappers into a moment of sober self-appraisal...
...nickname that has stuck with her ever since she was two, when a Negro nursemaid said: "Lawd, she's as pretty as a little lady bird...