Word: maides
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...Moor, their country house, are ready for them, Elizabeth and Philip are staying on with the family at Buckingham Palace. Late in the week, they ducked the annual Christmas Party for the Palace servants, to dine quietly with the Duchess of Kent. For a dancing partner Elizabeth's maid, Margaret MacDonald, had to make do with King George...
...plenty to do. She had to help the older sons, Jean, 24, and André, 22, decorate the flat with red paper bells and ribbon, trim the tree with baubles, set up a little creche with an electric light above it. She had to make certain that the maid set the réveillon table with red-candled silver candelabra and the beautiful lace cloth Madame had crocheted herself 25 years ago. Then there were presents...
Disturbed: the Rt. Rev. Geoffrey C. L. Lunt, sixtyish Bishop of Salisbury, in the middle of the night. A maid heard prowlers in the Cathedral yard, woke the bishop. He dashed out in pajamas and dressing gown, chased the villains over a high wall, hurried shivering back...
...morning, Sayde's maid answered the doorbell, saw two characters with stockings pulled over their faces. "This is a nice way to enter a person's home," Sayde observed. She was understating it. One of the men clubbed her on the head and face with the flat of a gun. "Where's the big ring?" the gunman wanted to know. She said the store...
...safe, told her to open it. "I can't," she wept. "Take it." She knew the ring was in the safe. "Aaah, how can I carry a 300-lb. safe?" the gunman asked in disgust. The pair emptied her jewel box, locked Sayde and the maid in a closet and beat it. Sayde wound up in a hospital with a fractured skull. The crooks' heist...