She told me how she and Father had gone to Cairo expressly to employ a maid.
At 15, Joan worked as a maid in a town a few hours from Nairobi.
Older clients, particularly, expect to be able to pay low wages for a maid-of-all-work.
Hoodwinked by Stead into thinking her daughter had gone into service as a maid, Mrs.
His father worked as a bartender, his mother as a maid and stock clerk.
Her mother, Carrie Butler, worked as a maid at the Thurmond family home in Edgefield, South Carolina.
So costly, in fact, that the majority of middle class Brazilians will no longer have a maid.
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Many middle-class Brazilian families have been used to having a maid to cook, clean and wash for them.
His mother was a maid, who cleaned houses for the wealthy French families.
As opposed to recommending that men not marry career women, you should recommend that they exercise, eat better, and hire a maid.
Among other recent cases, a maid from Jakarta was hospitalized after being beaten unconscious by the wife of her employer.
Than's mom supported the family as a maid, nursing aide, cafeteria worker and secretary, sending all four kids to college.
The 20-year-old former student intended to earn enough money in Hong Kong, working as a maid, to support her family back home.
She works at a nursing home and she works at a Maid-Rite.
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It can't be easy for this son of a maid and a bus driver -- both Cuban immigrants -- to reconcile those contradictions.
The case had centred on Evangeline Banao Vallejos, a maid from the Philippines who has worked in Hong Kong for more than 17 years.
And the maid's quarters within the apartment were also appealing in case the couple decided to travel with a maid or nanny in the future.
Others perhaps can no longer afford to hire a maid full-time, and are switching to contract cleaners who come in once or twice a week.
By my standards, they were rich because six days a week they had a maid who cooked and cleaned for them so both parents could work.
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They ate tiny sandwiches and cakes in her grand drawing room, while Hattie explained that a maid's role was her only realistic future on the screen.
You know, yesterday for lunch we stopped at a Maid-Rite on our way from Cedar Rapids to Marshalltown, and the waitress who served us was a single mom.
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There is little in the way of self-esteem that can be achieved through laundry and even less as you realize your role is little more than a maid, cook and chauffeur.
As Hong Kong became wealthier, local workers' salaries rose to the point that few were willing to work for a maid's salary, and the demand for foreign maids grew.
At the Villa Gallici, a four-star hotel in Aix-en-Provence, a maid spritzes the flagstones and rugs in the lobby with essence of lavender each morning, to insure the appropriate ambience.
Warner cites the following anecdote, from a 1736 text: A maid spent the morning in a gin shop and then returned to her master's Kensington home with a rowdy trio.
Certainly this would be much worse than the career-stalling failures of politicians and officials in the past, such as failing to properly account for and pay taxes on income paid to a maid or nanny.
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His family -- his mother was a maid, his father was a bus driver -- instilled in him that fundamentally American idea that through hard work, we can make of our lives what we will.
The next day a maid found Bebb-Jones in another hotel room, with a "self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head", according to details of the court documents reported in the local newspaper, the Daily Sentinel, in 2010.
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Leveaux, whose Broadway credits include the musical "Nine" with Antonio Banderas and "Cyrano de Bergerac" starring Kevin Kline, found his Juliet after seeing "Stick Fly" on Broadway and immediately spotting the "luminous" Rashad, who was playing a maid with a secret.
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