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We rang the doorbell, and instead of pressing the talk button on the intercom, the housekeep accidentally opened the gates!— Murmurs.com
The first, in 1930, was executive housekeep Juliette Brown, who apparently awoke at 4 a.m. feeling ill and died while reaching for the phone.
Twelve years before she had come here to "housekeep," as the old phrase went.— A Little Girl in Old Boston
"If she didn't want to housekeep, why does she go out as a housekeeper?"— Captain Jim
There can't be waste going on in the house--I won't have it, not when I housekeep, at any rate.— Polly A New-Fashioned Girl

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