Mrs. No-Complaint Adams

Mrs. No-Complaint Adams, not to be confused with Mrs. Socially Prominent Adams, was the Malone family's part-time housekeeper.

From Image Cascade:

"Mrs. No-complaint Adams, who gave the Malones the last half of every day to 'wash, iron, and cook them,' was never grim about ten minutes extra if she was ironing Johnny's sport shirts. But then Mrs. Adams was partial to the menfolks in the motherless Malone household. Little Martie she referred to fondly as 'the little mister.' And as for Martie Malone, father of the Malones! Mrs. Adams was sure that if the president at Washington would just read Martie Malone's editorials in the Morning Call, he would be entirely fit to cope with all the world's problems. . . . They called their housekeeper Mrs. No-complaint Adams because it was her proud boast that she had 'worked out' for seventeen years and had never had a complaint."

"Mrs. No-complaint seldom went so far as their front door when the knocker sounded. She d go to the front hall and yell, 'Come on in...the door isn't locked. Who'd you want? Beany? Well, yell upstairs and see. A body can never keep track of who's in and who's out.' "