Word: housemaid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Virginia Lewis' start was much like another Philadelphia Negro's, Contralto Marian Anderson. Soprano Lewis, discovered six years ago by Contralto Anderson's accompanist, studied as best she could, earned her living as a housemaid, went on relief, finally got a WPA music-teaching job last February. One day her voice was exhibited to Samuel Rosenbaum, president of the Robin Hood Dell concerts. Mr. Rosenbaum, after launching Soprano Lewis in the Dell, vowed to get her what he called "visibility" at the White House. He got it through Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey's sister Emma...
Married. Sir John William Frederick Fagge, 29, farmhand-baronet of Faver-sham, Kent, England (TIME, April 29); and Ivy Frier, housemaid; in Kent. Sir John's fellow volunteer firemen made an archway of hatchets as the couple left the church...
...Malcolm produced a pert blonde housemaid named Joy Higginson to swear she once abruptly entered the ballroom of his house to see Lady Campbell and a Mr. Bruce Keith "embracing as lovers" on a sofa...
...right sure Herodotus didn't get it from an Old Testament incident. The funniest reference to the same recherche subject is found in Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday, if I remember rightly, only that time it was a housemaid...