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Participating in the pay-raise discus were representatives of the University and members of the Employees Representative Association. The pay increases, and the change in maid service go into effect Monday, July...
...Landor. He once sent the poet a deadpan note confiding 1) that he had fallen in love with Queen Victoria ("Don't mention this unhappy attachment," Dickens warned another friend gravely) and 2) that, in order to recover from this sad affair, he intended "to kidnap a [royal] maid of honor and take her to an uninhabited island." It was no wonder that London buzzed with fantastic rumors and no wonder that Dickens found himself furiously denying that he had suddenly "become a Roman Catholic and was raving mad in an asylum...
...intruder entered with the help of the false keys, police believe. the robbery was discovered early Monday afternoon by the maid...
...need not close the door on life. The moms and pops want your sacrifice . . . They wouldn't do it themselves . . . The people who operate these training institutions (old maid factories) are greedy for your sacrifice so they can continue in their positions . . . Don't let them bait...
...talks in folksy, conversational style to the middle-income family, which it advises how to do almost everything. Samples: "How to wash and iron curtains," "How to stop rot," and how to remove crust from a baby's head. Upper-middle-class expressions such as maid's room, library and master bedroom are taboo. (B. H. & G. says added bedroom, den and owners' bedroom.) There are no "housewives"; they are all "home-makers." B. H. & G. admits that its constant touting of homemaking techniques, products and services sometimes makes it "hard to tell the articles from...