Word: servant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...favor. Yet people will probably cling to their picturesque illusions all the more because they have small foundation. Where could one find a horrible example of religious bigotry to cartoon if New England refuses the role? what becomes of the ancestry societies if one's ancestor was a bond servant on a rundown tobacco farm? The public will see to it that these iconoclastic assertions are still-born; it would never do to see the United States join hands with Australia as a place whose social genesis is best not talked about...
...least 100,000 Fascists, packed so tightly that it was impossible to lift hands to clap. He cried: "You are here in such numbers that it is clear that, if I had fallen under the assassin's blow, not a tyrant would have died but a humble servant of the nation who daily gives his whole self to the cause of his country...
There arrive at this secluded hostelry, not entirely by coincidence, the mistress of a Prince, a Lord of the Realm, and their servants, maid and man. The Lord hopes to secure the lady for himself. Failing in his bluntly amorous attack, he sets his servant the task of seducing and humiliating her. In the process the slightly battered courtesan and the discreetly handsome manservant fall in love and dash off, as the curtain falls, to a London marriage altar...
Crowed joyful servant girls: "Is 'Ighness 'as been alarkin' again...
...Glass Slipper. Think of Cinderella if her dream had not come true. Think of Cinderella in the guise of a dreamy servant girl of Budapest; in love with a grey-haired prince, who scolded her cruelly and ate potatoes with his knife. Think finally of Cinderella serving at his wedding to a greedy old harridan with money. Under such circumstances Cinderella might have taken to the streets. Molnar's did. There was a final act in a police court, in which the beauty and the poignancy of her suffering grew to a glowing climax...