Sentence examples for head housekeeper from inspiring English sources

I'm sure my head housekeeper will kill me," Wheeler said.

Helen Mirren is especially fine as the head housekeeper, Mrs. Wilson, a woman so resigned to her lot in life that she is able to say proudly and with only a trace of bitterness: "I'm the perfect servant.

IRENA'S VOW Tovah Feldshuh ("Golda's Balcony") portrays Irena Gut Opdyke, a Roman Catholic Polish woman forced to work as the head housekeeper for a prominent German military officer during the German occupation of Poland.

But that seems unlikely now that the property is owned by Charlene Marshall, whose children from a prior marriage have sometimes used it in recent years, according to Alicia Johnson, Mrs. Astor's head housekeeper there for 12 years before being laid off in 2004.

Precise detail adds texture, but profuse detail adds tedium, as when Ebershoff interrupts a dramatic dialogue between Linda and Rosa, the Poores' head housekeeper, to tell us that "Rosa was loading a box with food for the ranch house: a sack of H.O. oats, a pound of Purity Oleoa, a box of Not-a-Seed raisins, three pounds of boiling beef".

Dan Gordon's play, which ran Off Broadway in the fall, dramatizes the true story of Irena Gut Opdyke (Ms. Feldshuh), a Polish Catholic who worked as the head housekeeper for a Nazi officer and protected a dozen Jews, allowing them to hide in her boss's coal cellar.

"At first I asked myself what the fuck I was doing in that temple of classicism in my head-housekeeper's dress," she told a radio audience the next morning.

As a matter of "personal pride" she's been applying for better paying, hotel head-housekeeper jobs, even though that could endanger her pending bid to have the interest rate on her condo reduced.

A good wife, who is supposed to be a friend, assistant, mother, family head and housekeeper, and may indeed have to run her own business or job quite apart from her husband - such a wife cannot at the same time be a concubine: it would be too much to demand of her - Human, All Too Human.

The estate manager, head gardener and housekeeper tagged along to determine who would most harmoniously fit within the team.

Scholars who studied early books by blacks — like "The House Servant's Directory," by Robert Roberts, published in 1827, and Tunis G. Campbell's 1848 "Hotel Keepers, Head Waiters and Housekeepers' Guide" — tended to see their blend of Yankee, European and Southern recipes as a reflection of who was being served more than who was doing the serving.