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Married. Duke Nicholas of Leuchtenberg, 32, descendant of famed families of Beauharnais (France), Romanowsky (Russia); to Ella Miller, hairdresser's maid of Munich; in Munich...
...tried to reconcile that adventurous romantic spirit with the David, right hand man at the bank, David, beloved servant of the community, David, matter-of-course slave to his relatives. "Perhaps Davey will see his way clear to ..." send a bespectacled niece to finishing school, house a carping old-maid cousin, finance the whims and mistresses of a charming but debauched artist brother. Sophie married Davey out of her need for him, but the omnipresence of his relatives drove her to a garish New York apartment, complete with lovelorn poets, exaggerated cigaret holders, and the Nietzschean superman who mightily desired...
...same time the expenditures for various running expenses of the College buildings, including dormitories, were given out. The caretaking item for the College dormitories, including maid and janitor service and incidentals, amounted to $106,500. Steam heat furnished each College room totaled $71,891. Water, furnished in any desired quantity with each room, drew $7,075 from the Harvard exchequer, and electricity for all lights in the College dormitories exclusive of those in private rooms, cost $8,606. Other expenditures of interest were: for operation of the Dunster Hall steam elevator, $885.; for laundry work for the College dormitories--linen...
...Stories. A bedraggled little old maid utterly without human contact in life, Annie Spragg was linked in death with motley and many human lives...
...Oliver Harriman, Manhattan banker's wife, hired in 1893 a maid named Maggie A. Fleming who eventually became too feeble to work and went to an old people's home. Last May she died. Her will, last week filed, bequeathed her entire estate of $6,000 to Mrs. Harriman...