Neither did the robot maid, the home video phone, or the car that was also a boat.

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Current NBA players Chandler Parsons, David Lee, Tyson Chandler, Stephen Curry, Steve Novak and Joakim Noah and retired Rockets center Yao Ming were among those who attended the event, held in the atrium and concourse at Minute Maid Park, home of the Houston Astros.

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She works at a nursing home and she works at a Maid-Rite.

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Her mother, Carrie Butler, worked as a maid at the Thurmond family home in Edgefield, South Carolina.

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Cadillac, owned by General Motors, has always been a brides maid at this event never taking home the top prize.

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The 20-year-old former student intended to earn enough money in Hong Kong, working as a maid, to support her family back home.

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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.

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Police in New York pulled him off his Paris-bound flight and charged him with sexually assaulting a hotel chambermaid. (The charges were later dropped, and prosecutors said they doubted the maid's reliability.) An aide phoned Ms. Merkel at her central-Berlin home that Saturday and told her the news.

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