Bogle links the predominance of servants on-screen in the 1930s to the Great Depression.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
Yes Through the medium of her extra income, the working wife can equip her house with all modern conveniences and engage capable, trustworthy servants who can adequately take care of her home and family.
But the bar maids rallied together and eventually won their fight.
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Hannah Kliger,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
The movie does attempt to gesture at class and race as thematic underpinnings (the maids trapped in The Virgil are mostly non-white, while the villains are rich Caucasians), but like the story and action at large, these go pretty much nowhere, and feel like obligatory symbols.
But a catastrophic ‘Stormganza’ threatens to derail the high-speed train, and the duo have to join forces with the snobby first class attendants and President Gagwell (RuPaul) to save the day in this wild ride of camp and comedy.
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Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
25 Mar. 2026
Nuns often served as birth attendants to women in their communities.
The union represents pharmacy assistants, pharmacy technicians, clinical lab scientists, medical lab technicians and clinical and administrative workers in Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, San Bernardino, Riverside, Ventura and Kern counties.
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City News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Mar. 2026
Campbell’s top assistants at Sac State — Xavier Lopez and Minyon Moore — followed him to TCU.
Rock stars and their equivalents in other genres often develop their craft in obscurity before being discovered; idols are apprentices, trained exhaustively by their management companies.
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Mitch Therieau,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
Still, apprentices Justin, Jeff, and Meg, told us this beats their old jobs.
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