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Would the Queen "do something human while she is here, like going shopping?" Sir Ronald almost swallowed his walrus-mustache at that one. If shopping became necessary, he thought Her Majesty probably would send her maid...
With the help of a maid, widowed Minta Martin keeps house for her son in Baltimore's swank Ambassador Apartments, just a short walk from the Second Presbyterian Church, of which she is an active member. Martin sometimes goes with her to church on Sundays, dodges it when he can. On evenings when they don't go to the movies he likes to sit at home, surrounded by massive furniture and by paintings of landscapes which Minta Martin has dashed off from time to time over the past 40 years. Two years ago Mrs. Martin stopped painting, doesn...
Jewish Max Hecksher was a prosperous clothing manufacturer in Hamburg 20 years ago. Aryan Rose Hoga was a maid in his house. When post-War inflation in Germany was about to wipe out thrifty Rose's savings, Herr Hecksher converted her marks into dollars, advised her to go to the U.S. So Rose Hoga started life afresh as a cook in Milwaukee, again saved her money...
...Ayer is proved guilty, "Mary Doe" stands to make some $15,000-one-quarter the duties & penalties assessed by the U. S. The U. S. Attorney's office refused to identify Mary, but said she was not the accused's maid, as was the case in the arrest of Mrs. Elma Lauer, wife of a New York Supreme Court judge, who went into detention for a three-month term last month. Mrs. Lauer's maid got about $10,000 for informing...
Like Amelia, Menotti's new opus, The Old Maid and the Thief, was a farcical satire on feminine foibles. Its plot: a very pleasant, honest tramp so ingratiates himself with an old maid and her maidservant that they make him a permanent guest, even stealing liquor from a neighboring store (the heroine, a member of the town's temperance league, can't buy it publicly) to keep him contented. News that a notorious criminal, of similar description, has just escaped from a neighboring jail disturbs the old maid somewhat, but she reflects that "it is better...