Word: housemaid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remaining $4,163.70 was scrupulously accounted for, except for one item of $294 for "miscellaneous"-and a $2.25 error in bookkeeping. This was considerably at variance with the Post's implication that Nixon had used the money to buy a house and hire a housemaid...
...communicate with his doctor after death, lets a brand-new maid cook a meal that will kill him. Dead in a jiffy, he turns ghost, is joined by the shades of an Indian maiden, a Southern belle and a concert pianist. For two more acts, while the flesh & blood housemaid and doctor amble towards the altar, the four spirits aimlessly cavort about the stage...
...brekfast in case he should be sick on the jorney." While Ethel dabbed "red ruge" on her cheeks ("I am very pale owing to the drains in this house"), Mr. Salteena ran upstairs and "silently put 2/6 on the dirty toilet cover" for Rosalind, the housemaid...
...social scale, but just as disorganized. Papa Ancelot, a shoestring operator in the stock market, rails at his giddy daughters for going around with gigolos. But the daughters have found that they can distract Papa from his tirades by pushing him into the receptive arms of the housemaid. Mama and daughters work up fervors over Russian films, talk yearningly about the coming French revolution. One daughter guesses that 500,000 heads will fall. "I find [the idea] breathtakingly pure," replies Mama Ancelot...
...must be paid for her work or renounce a life of study." The word "drones" which the "Scan" writers used refers to the four hours of work per week that every Smith girl has to put in, on watch (Smithian for bells), in the dining hall, or as housemaid...