Word: housemaid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arthritis Due to Injury. Caused either by a single severe injury or by endless repetition of minor, unnoticed injuries. Commonest examples: tennis elbow and housemaid's knee. Treatment: draining away water on the knee, heat, massage, X rays, Novocain injections and, in severe cases, surgery. Now usually curable...
There were, of course, some things that Felix could not teach himself. A housemaid with exciting green eyes and an audacious lady of the evening supplied ample instruction...
...always wanted to hear Prisoner's Song - you know, 'If I had the wings of an angel . . .' Most of those gangsters were the nicest, quietest people.") In the Depression years, the blues were too real for comfort : Lizzie thought she was through. She worked as a housemaid, later as a barmaid. Even in World War II, she could not find a singing job. "Showfolks, gamblers and sportin' people have no loyalty...
...touched by his noble composure in the face of tragedy. Then he goes home alone, glances at the huge portrait of his late wife, and his satisfied smile confirms the growing suspicion that foul murder has been done. The camera switches to the mansion's cellar, where Housemaid Jean Simmons, her wits sharpened by adversity, has just finished dosing some rats with a little of the medicine that was given to her ailing mistress. The rats are dead...
...fingernails turn blue-in order to stay home from school. Soon he is able to forge signatures with the technical virtuosity of a three-time loser. He steals, too, but theft is an esthetic experience to him. And when it comes to sex (as it does soon, with the housemaid), he does not mind admitting that "my gifts for the pleasures of love bordered on the miraculous...