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...Turgenev was a landowner who spent his life chasing women; he kept out of the home and let his wife "do anything she liked." What she liked, according to Magarshack, was to make her household resemble the Czarist government as closely as possible. She gave her serfs court titles: "Maid of Honor," "Court Chamberlain." When her family physician came to treat her little adopted daughter, he was told: "Remember! If you don't cure her . . . Siberia!" Mother Turgenev discouraged marriage among her serfs because she liked their undivided attention for herself, so her women bore illegitimate children instead...
...Lytton, British Ambassador to France, and granddaughter of Author Bulwer-Lytton, became one of Parson Elwin's "blessed girls" in 1887. Emily was as rare a bird in her way as Elwin in his: she was in angry rebellion against the Victorian way of life. Urged to become maid of honor to Queen Victoria, Emily snorted: "I must indeed have fallen low to considered just the type to keep company with the royal family...
...without a divorce from Crooner Frank Sinatra, Cinemactress Ava Gardner left Nevada, where she had waited out her six-week legal residency stint, and rushed to Havana's Hotel Nacional, where she and Frankie had honeymooned so long ago. This time she registered as Miss Anne Clarke and maid, later went fishing with her old friend, Author Ernest Hemingway, hooked a twelve-pounder, while Papa caught nothing...
...Magnetic Maid. A cleaning device that attracts dust and dirt magnetically into small piles for easier sweeping has been put on the market by Damar Products, Inc. of Newark, N.J. "Magnetik Sweeper" has rubber ridges on the bottom, which create electrostatic action. Price...
...thought nothing of wounding her affections. Willy was the nearest thing to a factory ever known to literature: under his direction (and signature), teams of "obscure young writers and journalists who desperately needed money" churned out books and articles. Wife Colette was just a sort of combination kitchen maid and pretty showpiece. The acquisition of money and mistresses was Willy's chief interest in life, and Colette has described how one night, after being tipped off by an anonymous letter, she went to an actress' flat and caught her husband in the act of forwarding both aims...