Sentences with phrase «mother as a maid»

She takes readers back to New York City in the late 1920s, where inquisitive, 12 - year - old Martha O'Doyle joins her mother as a maid in the Sewell mansion.

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Asda and Morrisons both portray mothers running around like demented scullery maids for weeks on end as they get ready for the festivities.

It reminds me of the tributes we see around Mother's Day, where moms are described as having all those different roles — doctor, psychologist, maid, teacher, taxi driver, and so on.

During a family vacation I took as a child, my mother accused the maid at our hotel of stealing her engagement ring.

That's why he hires Corrina (Whoopi Goldberg) as his maid and nanny to his daughter, Molly (Tina Majorino), who has taken to not speaking since her mother's death.

Faraday knows the estate from his own childhood, when his mother worked there as a maid herself.

Superlative work is rather expected from the likes of Davis, Stone (whom it is good to see show off her dramatic chops in a high - profile film after her excellent work in the virtually unseen — and frankly overall forgettable — Paper Man), Howard, Sissy Spacek (as her lush of a mother), Allison Janney (as Stone's cancer - stricken mom) and Cicely Tyson (as Stone's family's former maid), so perhaps making an even more memorable impression is the work by two less familiar stars.

His mother had given up her job as a maid for betterpaying work at Moldex, a factory that manufactured foam for the bra cups of bathing suits.

The boys» mother, Angela Mancilla, worked as a maid, found she couldn't make ends meet, and left for a similar job in Texas in 1957, leaving her two toddlers behind with relatives.

From her years as a spirited, secretive child, through her university studies - a period of exquisite freedom that imbued her with a profound appreciation of friendship and a love of travel - to her escape to a new life in California, Mayes exuberantly recreates the intense relationships of her past, recounting the bitter and sweet stories of her complicated family: her beautiful yet fragile mother, Frankye; her unpredictable father, Garbert; Daddy Jack, whose life Garbert saved; grandmother Mother Mayes; and the family maid, Frances's confidant Williemother, Frankye; her unpredictable father, Garbert; Daddy Jack, whose life Garbert saved; grandmother Mother Mayes; and the family maid, Frances's confidant WillieMother Mayes; and the family maid, Frances's confidant Willie Bell.

But she has cut ties with the Greyhill family, for whom her mother, Anju, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, once worked as a maid.

They highlighted two films: Electrical Gaza 2015, which combines Nashashibi's observations of domestic life in Gaza with animated sequences, and Vivian's Garden 2017, which tells the story of two artists, a mother and daughter, who live in the Guatemalan jungle with Mayan villagers as guardians and maids.