Word: servant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seldom since the day when Pilgrims first placed expectant feet upon the rock at Plymouth, has the Commonwealth of Massachusetts had a servant who refused legitimate checks amounting to more than $50,000. This man, who plunges into politics for love and duty, is Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts. Said he recently...
...reporter . . . had never heard of Ivy Lee and went, naively, to the Rockefeller home. Mrs. Rockefeller was having a reception and could not see the reporter. But she sent a servant with a message, scribbled on the back of a letter. It suggested calling upon Mr. Lee at 111 Broadway...
...from at least three definite song hits contributed by Lewis Gensler: "Don't Forget," "Cross Your Heart," "Everything Will Happen For The Best." The plot is frankly based upon that old farce, A Pair of Sixes, in which a poker hand assigns one man to the position of servant, the other to the position of master, for a whole year. The antics of elephantine Frank Mclntyre and dapper Charles Ruggles as the incompatible parties to the poker contract are enough to carry any show to success, even without the added help of droll comedienne Luella Gear, acrobatic Edwin Michaels...
Sirs: Here is 15? to pay for the Marcus Garvey number of TIME, June 11, 1923, you so kindly sent me. Thank you. It served the good purpose of truth telling to an intelligent but ignorant colored cook, valuable servant to me. Educating Negroes is difficult -all praise to TIME for timely help. Honor and glory to TIME ! Keep on with footnotes. . . . JEAN M. C. PATTEN Washington...
Last week in London his mother, 81, slipped, fell, broke her thigh. Her two daughters, both invalids, were unable to go to her aid. Since Mrs. Shackleton is all but destitute, has no servant, she lay upon the floor for some hours until a friend chanced to hear her cries...