Word: charwoman
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...plays the succulent part of Scrooge with delightful gusto, whether barking at charity solicitors, cringing before ghosts, demoniacally fleecing a business associate or lavishing favors on a startled Cratchit. Sim gets his best support from Kathleen Harrison, who expands the Dickens vignette of Scrooge's glum charwoman into a life-size comic portrait. Sample: the hilariously ghoulish scene that shows her cheerfully plying the rag & bones man with Scrooge's deathbed effects...
George Russell (AE) discovered Stephens, considered him one of the lights of Ireland's literary renaissance. His first novel, The Charwoman's Daughter* was published in a little magazine edited by Joseph Plunkett three years before Plunkett was executed by a British firing squad...
...Oakland jury listened as disillusioned disciples told of C. (for Cash, he explains unabashedly) Thomas Patten's talents. There was a caterer who said he had given Patten $10,000 ("I never had but a few dollars to give my wife''), a $35-a-week charwoman and her husband who had handed over...
After reducing himself to an object as piteous and work-ridden as an aged charwoman's knee, Toombs wails an old refrain: "Waking up in the morning is the worst mistake that a housekeeper can make. You have the awful feeling that you are in debt to the day . . . Housekeeping [is] certainly the hardest job I . . . ever tackled...
...Rhine had been doubled in size. The landscaping was finished only 24 hours before Western Germany's new government convened last week. On the final night, 1,500 workers mopped the floors, polished the windows, hung the draperies, arranged the potted plants. At dawn a tired old charwoman sank into a green leather chair and groaned: "All I can say is, something good had better come out of all this." The new democratic government was Germany's chance to work her passage back...