Word: minion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They figure, however, that Santa Claus, or St. Nicholas, the patron saint of Generosity, was born on Dec. 6, do their giving then. Dutchmen conceive the Saint as a bishop whose ecclesiastic dignity is above lugging presents around in a sack. This is done by his far from humble minion, Black Peter, a capering minstrel in braided doublet, van Dyck ruff and Renaissance plumed...
...were visited on St. Nicholas Day by the mitered Saint, bearing aloft his bishop's crook and preceded by capering Peter, who brought sugar cakes for the soldiers. Dutch cameramen snapped St. Nicholas peering through field glasses at cruising bombers outlined against the sky. Amid jollification, Saint and minion tasted the troops' pea soup, which gulping Peter pronounced "prachtig" ("swell...
...ANNE MINION'S LIFE-Myron Brinig-Farrar & Rinehart...
...that suicide Author Brinig (The Sisters, May Flavin) found the subject for Anne Minion's Life readymade. But he copied only part of the story-the physical details of how Anne Minton commits suicide. For his main story he leaves tormented Anne teetering on the ledge while he draws several characters from the mob below. Anne's suicide is pictured as less a tragedy than a blessing. Because of her example the wife of an unemployed worker cancels her trip to an abortionist (her husband has found a job when she gets home). A philandering playboy makes amends...
...these charges Robert Odell had last week made no direct answer. Instead he brought a spectacular counterattack. He claimed that Commissioner Evans is a political minion of Governor Olson and that they are ganging up on him because he did not contribute enough to their 1938 campaign fund. He based this in part upon the appointment of Norman Church as Pacific States' custodian...