Word: servant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...absence of male society, feverish unrest at times approaching hysteria moves among these healthy females. But the mysterious conception of a child by one ripe and ecstatic ex-servant, followed by a teeming succession of pregnancies among the other women (of equally mysterious causation), calms all and gives rise to a salutary myth about Mukalinda, deity of fertilization, who appears as a brightly burning youth; and to a satisfying religion under a female godhead, Bona...
...Lady of Threadneedle Street." Since 1694 written records have been preserved of her spinsterhood. Now at last an old servant, one W. Marston Acres, long in her employ, is to write her biography. Last week the august Court of Directors of the Bank of England commissioned him to "compile a story particularly stressing the points of human interest in the history of the world's most famous bank...
...sach other over this famous name last week. When fully and correctly written and spelled, it is said to be "Amir Muhammad-ibn Abd-el-Karim." Translated, 'Amir" is the Arabic equivalent for "Prince"; "Muhammad," of course, the Arabic spelling of "Mohammed" ; "ibn," "son"; "Abd," "of the servant"; and "ul-Karim," "of the Gracious One" (i. e. God). The whole name may thus be translated "Prince Mohammed, Son of the Servant of God"; "Mohammad" being the Prince's "given name," and "Servant of God" his "family name...
...call to decide for your city between John F. Hylan, clean and honest servant of your interest and yours alone, whose record of deeds contains no blemish, and "Little Jimmie Walker, slick and pliant politician, Broadway butterfly; advocate in public of mothers' pensions and paid in private for easing the sale of putrid and dis- eased meat to those mothers...
...have neither political nor social ambition nor financial obligations. I am only a public servant and want all the aid I can get in administering the affairs of this office...