Word: servant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Helen of Troy is a legend whose life has passed, like an old coat, from king to courtier, from courtier to servant, from servant to beggar. Homer wrote about a fine and glittering lady; Marlowe found lines like golden bells, for a casual queen; John Erskine made the legend into a matrimonial farce, and now the matrimonial farce has become a cinema, played against Maxfield Parrish walls and valleys, by Maria Corda, a pretty little blonde girl with an affected way of showing her teeth...
...about in a natural impulse to help me. Nothing I know how to say will prevent them. Personally I am baffled. But I'm wondering if you can't help me?" Questions of this latter type?deal-ing with the problems of modern "nice people" who are often servant-less?give Mrs. Post scope for something new in conduct counsel. She advises servantless hostesses to give buffet suppers, and thus remain cool, charming?it is as simple as that Additionally, of course, the new volume revamps some 600 pages of Mrs. Post's well standardized advice...
...written down all his obscure and enormous conquests, his dark and perhaps reprehensible maneuvers, there followed a great curiosity to see the book in which they were notated. Men tried to buy it, to beg it, to steal it. Last week a publisher offered Zaharoff's Scotch servant $10,000 for the diary of his master to whom the servant immediately reported this attempted bribery...
...criticizing them for their failure to grasp the significance of scientific research in the development of industry. Lack of Canadian appreciation of scientific research in relation to industry, said he, was responsible for many brilliant men and much capital leaving Canada for the U. S., a country where the servant was worthy of his hire and where advantage was taken of every opportunity. He closed his speech on a note personal to himself-the inadequate salaries paid Canadian professors. He could not possibly carry on his own work and support his family, did not his relatives help him with money...
...paintings, numbering over 80, include portraits, landscapes and still life subjects. They are unusual on account of their technical excellence. Dr. Ross' brush is the servant of his understanding as well as of his emotions. He gives us the keen satisfaction of a beautifully finished and ordered performance. Not confined to one particular mode of expression, he ranges freely and easily from one to another. It has been his aim to understand and to practice the different modes of the art as they have been developed by the reat masters: the mode of outlines and flat tones; of low relief...