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Owners Ralph and Gordon Verhurst were just as impressed by Proximity's total earnings to date: $190,579.67, a close trotting distance from the record of $206,462.50 set by Goldsmith Maid* before the turn of the century...
Neighbors said that a man named Domingo Massolo had lived there. He was said to be a captain in the veterinary corps, a quiet, aloof fellow of about 40, with a wife and three children. The reporter found the Massolos' former maid. The last morning she visited the house she had found a note on the door telling her she was no longer needed. She went in anyway, noticed blood spots on the carpet and on a mirror, then hastily left...
...London printer named Samuel Richardson helped change the course of literary history by writing that forerunner of the modern novel, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded. Fashionable London ladies wept till the rouge ran about Serving Maid Pamela Andrews' trials at the hands of her lecherous master, and marveled at the way she held him at bay with moral philosophy or (since he was prepared to go to any lengths of force) by dropping off into swoons that rendered her cold and stiff. Everyone sighed with relief when the repulsed rapist broke down and proposed marriage to Pamela-who of course...
...maids' meeting, there was no mention of the Graduate Student Council's proposal to cut maid service next year in order to lower room rentals...
...College, maids are reported about to ask for a five-day week. Officials fear that severe reduction of undergraduate maid service may eventually have to be considered if room rents are to be kept "reasonable...