Word: housemaid
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...final years, according to Sao Paulo papers, Pedro fell in love with a housemaid, Elza Gulpian de Oliveira. But as the thin-faced, 34-year-old woman told it last week, the old man persistently refused to marry her, without explaining why. When she married another man in 1978, Pedro moped and pined. The last image of Pedro, from another former maid, Ines Mehlich, was his valediction as he left on his fatal seaside trip with the Bosserts in 1979: "I'm going to the beach because my life is ending...
...life had I had the idea of playing Pygmalion to any woman, because I have too much respect for human personality." Yet he did not like his first wife's given name, Régine, so he called her Tigy; he renamed the young woman who became their housemaid and his lover, dubbing her Boule instead of Henrīette. His second wife, whom he now reviles and calls D. rather than Denise, underwent a similar transformation: "In Canada I had gotten D. to give up using makeup." Having made them, he could also break them. Tigy agreed...
Their arrival in Los Angeles marks a temporary triumph of optimism; Enrique becomes a waiter in a posh restaurant; Rosa finds work first in a garment factory (where she sees models "Just like in a magazine!") and then as housemaid to an amusingly prim matron who unsuccessfully tries to teach her how to operate a computerized washer-dryer...
...basics. "It's not the wardrobe of a designer," he apologizes, showing a lineup of five navy-blue jackets and one of cashmere wool. In a neighboring closet are a full supply of denim and leather jeans, some old shirts, underwear from Bloomingdale's arranged by the housemaid in neat rows like grenadiers on parade, and an assortment of shoes, his own make as well as American and English...
...guts and she hates mine. She forced my father to suicide," he writes Publisher Charles Scribner in 1949. Women, he suggests frequently, will trap and destroy a man. They can also be too competitive. After his divorce from Combat Correspondent Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway writes Scribner: "Have a new housemaid named Martha and certainly is a pleasure to give her orders. Marty was a lovely girl though. I wish she hadn't been quite so ambitious and war crazy." The fourth and last Mrs. Hemingway, Mary Welsh, was Papa's sort of guy-a combination of femininity and intelligence...