Word: scrubwoman
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While the scrubwoman wades slowly down the floor, first one and then another of the villagers drops in for late morning coffee and gossip. They build and believe fictions out of malice, lay plans that are monuments of self-deception, respond to reality, when it is forced on them, with shocked disbelief. The behavior of their feet, which have a vivid animal reality for the scrubwoman, often gives the lie to what they say. But the drama of physical reality that they create finally becomes so exciting that even the narrator is infected. "Despite myself and the progress I have...
...Christian optimism in calling upon his audience to pray for the conversion of ex-seminarian Joseph Stalin. "Think what it would mean to the world if this man-the most influential man on earth-should stand up and say that he had returned to the faith of his dear scrubwoman mother...
Bromfield unveils Anna Bolton, daughter of an Ohio scrubwoman, as a glittering creature of wealth in Neville Chamberlain's London. He takes her from this lavishly mad prewar society, spots her at the Ritz in Paris while France is falling, has her strafed in her Rolls-Royce in a roadful of refugees, finally sets her down in Unoccupied France to run a village canteen, care for a motherless baby, marry a member of the underground. By this process she "grows a soul." Caldwell reintroduces a family she has written about before, the Bouchards, who are still the blackest-hearted...
...first case ever handled by the Bureau was that of a scrubwoman who shark, a case which, the Bureau likes to point out, resulted in the mortgage shark's being run out of the city. The success of the Bureau hasn't diminished appreciably, however, since that time, for of the 76 cases taken into court last year, favorable verdicts were returned in 67 of them...
This week the Department of Agriculture and the WPA in New Jersey set about getting women's figures taped; they started a WPA project to measure 100,000 women. Later this research will be continued in five other States. Each subject-matron, maid, scrubwoman, show girl-will be taped in 59 different places, special recordings made to check the "sitting spread." The purpose: to create a new, unified system of sizing women's clothing...