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...momentary passion develops into an unrealizable love. "A Night At Sea", the meeting of two men who loved the same woman and the unexpected unemotional calm with which they discuss their life with her, and "A Simple Peasant", delineation of the jealous love of a simple peasant for the maid-servant and mistress of his master...
...That reminds me," she replied, "of the story about the lady who complained to her Irish maid that the dust on the piano was so thick that she could write her name in it. The maid," continued the biddy, "answered right back, 'My, the advantages of a good education...
...mere success story Wells's career makes stimulating reading. His father was a small shopkeeper and professional cricketer; his mother, a lady's maid who rose to be a housekeeper. Young Bertie, after a scattered schooling, started real life as a draper's apprentice. He hated the job, did it badly. He liked school teaching a little better, being a student at the South Kensington Normal School of Science even more. But as a science student he found so many things to interest and annoy him that at the end of three years he flunked, had to go back...
...turned out for the rally. The unhappy Reichsbischof had to cancel most of his arrangements. Docile strollers on Unter den Linden saluted the German Christians, wondered why, instead of hymns, their band blared such popular tunes as: "Laura, Laura." and "Do You Think, Oh My Berlin Maid, That Because I Dance With You I'll Marry...
Mary Louise Peck's impersonation of the Maid of Orleans was part of a pageant given last fortnight at semiswank Atlantic Beach Club on Long Island. Most of them scantily clad to represent such characters as Messalina, Mae West and Pocahontas, the performers included Swimmer Helen Meany, a semi-nude showgirl and that most formidable and ubiquitous of socialites. Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken. To dine and see the pageant 251 persons had bought tickets at $7.50 each and, to give the spectacle an air of righteous charity, the profits, if any, were to go to a local fire department...