Word: housemaid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...citizens of Sweden do not think so. Their lives are passed in a land where "service" is not advertised but given. From a Swedish telephone operator is expected the sort of unstinted satisfaction which a Swedish housemaid gives by shining the family shoes every day, doing the household wash and energetically scrubbing such members of the family as may deign to take a bath. Last week the telephone companies in Stockholm and Gothenburg announced a new era of luxurious telephoning typically Swedish...
Find Daddy. A frantic farce, about a baby that nobody wanted but everybody claimed, lasted just one week. It was perhaps the loudest performance this year and certainly the most athletic. Noise and perspiration, however, could not prevail. There was, nevertheless, one glowing line. The paternity of the housemaid's baby had just been fastened upon two married and apparently blameless males. "And to think," muttered the horrified heroine, "that both of them are Harvard...
...Bank of France has been aware that attempts were being made to pass counterfeit 1,000-franc notes in Holland, Italy, Hungary. One day an Amsterdam banker, Mynheer Severin, sent to the Bank of France a 1,000-franc note which he had recognized as counterfeit when his Hungarian housemaid, one Vrouw Kovacs, asked him to change it for her into Dutch florins...
Detectives, despatched by the Bank of France to Amsterdam, found that the housemaid was receiving counterfeit bills regularly from her family in Hungary. They discovered that her father was the valet of the celebrated Prince Ludwig Windisch-Graetz...
that will let him, like the hero of She Stoops to Conquer, make terms with beauty as the housemaid, but not as the mistress...