Word: servant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doctors said that he was suffering from Landry's paralysis, which generally kills the victim in two to 14 days. Still there was faint hope for their Albert. In 1898, at Minneapolis, a Swedish house servant had lived for 41 days under artificial respiration. And at New Haven, a year ago, one Mrs. Mary Baker, with lungs, paralyzed for 75 hours, had recovered...
...heart. He tarries awhile in this hovel of Muscovite anguish to bring light into the souls of the people, and by token of a dusted window, into the room, the main scene of sorrow. Apparently, this constitutes a symbol. It is in the same vein as the Servant in the House* and, no doubt, carries a great message, which fails to compensate for dramatic poverty...
...drama of religious symbolism by Charles Rann Kennedy, in which a servant does and says the things which, in the author's opinion, Jesus Christ would say and do were he in the same situation. John Galsworthy wrote a similar play, Windows, without the Christian emphasis...
...After three weeks we found the town completely ruined. Cut off from anything but 'The Servant in the House' and such like, the young bloods of Charlotte were doing far worse things than going to the theatre. Indeed, the town was a sink of iniquity. Also there was an exodus to Canada of most of the men folk and the women folk blocked the depot waiting for copies of "Love Life in Nature". So we sent to the city for a burlesque show, and now all' is all right in Charlotte. Your friend--Hezekish Hemple, Committee on Morals, Charlotte, Vermont...
...Marshal is ill and will see no one," said a servant, closing the door firmly in the Vice Premier's face. As usual, Josef Pilsudski, sly possum, was playing dead. Five minutes later he received an old friend, Minister of Posts Medzinski. Together they arranged the morrow's little melodrama...