Word: housemaid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...threatening court action if he didn't mend his studio manners (i.e., references to company executives, language in front of cinemoppets, general demeanor). Back came a reply: "Dear Sir, Mr. Fields and I read your letter and did we laugh." It was signed "Adele" (Fields's Negro housemaid...
...Argonne Forest in World War I, had been relieved of his field command by Lieut. General Ben Lear, assigned to head the reclassification board of the Second Army. General Truman, who had been doing a lot of housecleaning in his own division, resigned rather than take his housemaid's assignment...
What Retirement does best is five attractive characterizations by its principals, with an assist from housemaid Evelyn Keyes. A holdover from the Broadway cast, elegant Isobel Elsom is a handsome ornament to the grisly drama. The others are less handsome, but just as effective-especially taut, slight, eruptive Ida Lupino, who deftly manipulates her neurotic nuances as if her nephew (Mr. Hay ward) were not her real-life husband...
Conductor Paige chose his 75 Young Americans from 2,000 applicants. Their ages range from 17 to 26, average under 21. His tuba player was a janitor; a trombonist, a truck driver; a violinist, a housemaid; the concertmaster, a welterweight boxer. Songster for the Young Americans is Carolyn Cromwell, redhaired, 19-year-old Kansan. The orchestra has already made its first recordings; when RCA Victor's Music Director Charles O'Connell heard the Young Americans rehearsing, he put them under five-year contract. Because a radio sponsor is eyeing them, the Young Americans have made only one concert...
Herbert Morrison, Minister of Home Security and Home Secretary. "Herbert is a Cockney." He was born in Lambeth, "son of a policeman and a housemaid." There he studied "Marx, Engels, Darwin and Vandervelde...