The Old Maid is a 1934 play by American playwright Zoë Akins, adapted from Edith Wharton's 1924 novella of the same name. The play as published has six...
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Old Maid is a 19th-century American card game for two or more players, presumed to have derived from an ancient European gambling game in which the loser...
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Prize-winning play of the same name by Zoë Akins, which was adapted from the 1924 Edith Wharton novella The Old Maid: the Fifties (taken from the collection...
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Look up old maid or Old Maid in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An old maid is an older woman who has never married. Old maid or Old Maid may also refer...
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The Old Maid and the Thief is a radio opera in one act by Italian-American composer Gian Carlo Menotti. The work uses an English language libretto by...
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Hinata Satō A fresh-faced 17-year-old girl who moves to Akiba to become a maid café waitress after seeing a flier from the Oinky Doink Cafe. Despite her initial...
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"The King and the Beggar-maid" is a 16th-century broadside ballad that tells of an African king, Cophetua, and his love for the beggar Penelophon (Shakespearean...
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space created through role play with the maid. These maids are almost always younger women, ranging from around 18 years old to their mid twenties. These...
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Maid Marian is the heroine of the Robin Hood legend in English folklore, often taken to be his lover. She is not mentioned in the early, medieval versions...
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Old Maids is an 1841 comedy play by the Irish writer James Sheridan Knowles. It was first staged at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London on 12 October...
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Elizabeth Barton (redirect from The Holy Maid of London)
– 20 April 1534), known as "The Nun of Kent", "The Holy Maid of London", "The Holy Maid of Kent" and later "The Mad Maid of Kent", was an English Catholic...
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Minute Maid Park, rebranding to Daikin Park on January 1, 2025, (originally Enron Field and formerly Astros Field) is a retractable roof stadium in Houston...
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Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid (Japanese: 小林さんちのメイドラゴン, Hepburn: Kobayashi-san Chi no Meidoragon), also known as The Maid Dragon of Kobayashi-san is a Japanese...
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ISBN 978-0-94045053-0. The full text of Old New York at HathiTrust Digital Library: "False Dawn" "The Old Maid" "The Spark" "New Year's Day" Old New York public...
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The Old Maid Having Her Picture Taken is a 1901 silent short film directed by Edwin S. Porter in collaboration with George S. Fleming. The comic film depicts...
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bassist Misa, and drummer Akane Hirose. The band combines a rock sound with a maid image modeled on Japanese maid cafés. They are currently signed to Pony...
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Queen of spades (redirect from The queen of spades)
associated with the Greek goddess Pallas. In Old Maid, several games of the Hearts family, and some variants of poker, it has a special function. In the Hearts...
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The Maid I Hired Recently Is Mysterious (Japanese: 最近雇ったメイドが怪しい, Hepburn: Saikin Yatotta Meido ga Ayashī), also known as My Recently Hired Maid Is Suspicious...
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(Mark Deklin), his mysterious maid Opal (Joanna P. Adler), and a fifteen-year-old secret. While Marisol works to solve the mystery of her new lover, Rosie...
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much older husband. Her worldview changes after an unlikely friendship with her African-American maid. The play premiered in Washington D.C with the Woolly...
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Glenn Close in The Public Theater's production of Mother of the Maid. She will also star opposite Jovan Adepo in Kerem Sanga's drama The Violent Heart...
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Black Peter (card game) (category Card games introduced in the 1920s)
children's card games. Old Maid is similar in concept to Black Peter and may derive from it. The name Black Peter may be derived from the robber Johann Peter...
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Nursemaid (redirect from Nursery maid)
nursemaid (or nursery maid) is a mostly historical term for a female domestic worker who cares for children within a large household. The term implies that...
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Robin Hood (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
yet Maid Marian or Friar Tuck. The friar has been part of the legend since at least the later 15th century, when he is mentioned in a Robin Hood play script...
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Choice Ternary of English Plays, a volume that also contains the plays The Marriage Broker and Thorny Abby; or, The London Maid. The collection assigns Grim...
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The Maid of Arran, An Idyllic Irish Drama Written for the People, Irrespective of Caste or Nationality is an 1882 musical play by L. Frank Baum, writing...
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a school in order to pay the rent. Phoebe has not accepted any other suitor and has allowed herself to become an "Old Maid" and school mistress. Phoebe...
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painter Pastor Manders, an old friend of Helen Alving Jacob Engstrand, a carpenter Regina Engstrand, Mrs. Alving's maid and the purported daughter of Jacob...
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They learned to play rock songs and posted videos of their performances to YouTube. In 2014, 12-year-old Paulina was profiled in the women's drumming...
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journalist and writer, Skeeter decides to write a book from the point of view of the maids, exposing the racism they face as they work for white families. Black...
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