Word: housemaid
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...with her master (Birger Malmsten). Like the hero of the novel, the master is an arrogant and atrabilious young bourgeois who hammers moodily on a grand piano and one day is stricken blind. Bitter in his affliction, he scorns her love. "Dare I aspire," he sneers, "to marry the housemaid?" Hurt to the heart, she leaves, and he is left to suffer at life's hands what she has suffered at his, to take the fall that pride traditionally portends...
...University ofAlabama, now considering its third Negro applicant in five weeks. The only one publicly known is Vivian Malone, 20, of Mobile, daughter of a housemaid. Applicant Malone, presently a junior majoring in business education at all-Negro Alabama A. & M., will not have to go to court to establish the right of Negroes to enter the university. The school has been under federal court order not to discriminate ever since 1956, when Coed Autherine Lucy (now studying education at Texas Southern University) was expelled because she charged university collusion with the mobs that chased her from the campus...
...Mansfield knew better. Asked about Humphrey's forecast, he simply sighed: "What week?" A newsman suggested to Mansfield that in Election Year 1962. a lot of members of Congress were by now praying for adjournment. Retorted Mansfield: "If I pray any more, I'm going to have housemaid's knee...
...dignity in domestic service, and they have heard of the high pay in America. Many of them are interested in picking up some English, and even more in picking up a husband- as did Anne-Marie Rasmussen. who came from a small Norwegian fishing village to be a housemaid for Governor Nelson Rockefeller and ended up as his daughter...
...vacant apartment through which the store can be entered. Mamma mia! A few days before the robbery the gang discovers that the apartment is not vacant at all. Two nice old ladies live there-they just never open the shutters. Fortunately, the old ladies have a pretty young housemaid. The boxer makes a date with her. She falls madly in love-and impulsively announces that she has quit...