Word: servant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...youth, Joanna Southcott of Devonshire, England, was a domestic servant. Later, she became a mystic and dictated prophecies (in rhyme). She fully expected to be the mother of the "true Messiah." But no Messiah came, even though 100,000 people believed in Prophetess Southcott in her heyday. In 1814 she died, leaving an eleven-pound box with instructions that it should not be opened except in time of national stress and in the presence of 24 bishops. During the last century, certain Britishers have been reported as going into trances over this box. However, it was never opened, chiefly because...
Sword-Handy Premier. General Guchi Tanaka is a picturesque, opinionated, vigorous man of the sword who was allowed to enter politics from the Army by imperial decree of the late Tenno Yoshihito† He was born (1863) the third son of a servant attached to the great feudal lord Mori. His evident quickness and superiority of mind gained him the patronage of his lord and he was sent to the Military School, thereafter rising through the ranks until, in 1915, he was a Lieutenant General and Vice Chief of the General Staff...
...rises at about 6:30 a. m. and rings for his personal servant, Cavaliere Malvestiti, whose surname by odd circumstance means "badly dressed." Old companions, they chat in Milanese dialect...
...South, Alabama's Catholic-baiting Senator Heflin of the untiring lungs, leads a chorus of Pope-fearing Protestants, others, more tolerant, seeing what power the Catholic Church holds over the minds of their Irish cooks and nursemaids, wonder whether any Roman Catholic can be an unbiased and independent servant of the State. Last week, two sober magazines, the Atlantic Monthly and the New Republic approached the question with dignity and understanding. In an editorial, "A Catholic President?" the New Republic says: "If Governor Smith is to have any chance for the [Democratic] nomination, he cannot continue for long...
...Cities Service Co., $650,000,000 corporation selling gas, oil, electricity and transportation to more than 600 U. S. and Canadian communities, received an intimately colloquial letter from their President, Henry Latham Doherty, last week. The letter, like the lines of drama, revealed the tribulations of a quasi servant of the U. S. public: "I am not an impatient man and I am not given to making impatient statements, but I have got to a point where it is hard for me to preserve the semblance of good humor when somebody makes a statement that Cities Service...