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...alternative is frightening. It is a future of phones that go dead when you answer them, of footsteps that echo yours and stop when you stop, of letters that disappear silently from your desk. The very napkin-holders will have ears, and even the maid will be tight-lipped and shifty-eyed as she goes over your room in the morning...
...Maid. In Oklahoma City, Audrey Lee Williams told the assistant county attorney she did not want to press the assault-with-intent-to-kill charges she had lodged against Oscar Junior Johnson because "as soon as he gets out of jail, I'm going to marry...
Edward E. Reynolds, vice president of the university, says Harvard may not be able to afford maid service for dormitorles next year if wage scales continue to go up. This would compel students to make their own beds. If the inflationary spiral isn't checked, it's logical to expect that the university will project this policy into other fields. Once a Harvard man has been taught to make his own bed it's a short step to teach him to vacuum the rugs and sweep the corriders. The result inevitably will be a rush of girls to marry Harvard...
...annual Christmas dance for the servants at Buckingham Palace got under way when the orchestra struck up Night and Day and King George VI led Household Maid Isabel Ross in the first foxtrot of the evening. Then, instead of leaving after his usual one duty dance, His Majesty enjoyed two more rounds while Queen Elizabeth, in gold-tinted crinoline and a diamond tiara, danced with her deputy steward and a page...
When the work program began in 1942, maids continued cleaning rooms once a week, doing some bell duty and helping out in the dining room. With the second reduction of maid service in the fall of 1949, student workers took over all bell work, more dining room work and complete charge of their rooms...