Word: servant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Birth. In the days when Calcutta was the capital of India,* a beturbaned servant entered the High Court where Bhuban Mohan Das, an attorney, was declaiming the law. It took some time before the lawyer could be persuaded to give ear to his excited servant, who was vainly struggling to enter the courtroom. When at last he came to the door, he was told by the groveling servitor that a fine, fat boy had been born to his wife. Home went Bhuban, to behold the youngster whom he was to name Chitta Ranjan...
...LOST DOMINION-"Al Carthill" -Putnam ($3.50). Under the title of this book, a florid classicist-an Indian civil servant-whose pseudonym does not hide the fact that at the best he came from Oxford or Cambridge, revels in a verbose interpretation of the history of the British in India. The general conclusion which the author reaches is that the British will one day lose India, for reason that there will be no place for her in the Commonwealth and no tie to bind her to the other Dominions...
Stooping among his instruments in a lonely observatory at Juvisy, France, Camille Flammarion, 83, famed French astronomer, felt a chill in his side, slipped to the floor. Many hours later, footsteps rang on the stone stairway. The servant who entered found Flammarion where he had fallen. One arm was twisted under his body. His face, scribbled with an extraordinary network of fine lines, was curiously dis- ordered under the bush of his white hair. He was dead. When Camille Flammarion was 9, he saw an eclipse. It was not the spectacle of the little moon lying like a black penny...
...Mangin: "He was a great soldier." Major General Robert Lee Bullard, onetime (Oct. 11, 1918-Apr. 15, 1919) Commander of the U. S. , Second Corps Area, cabled from his sick bed in Fort Totten Army Hospital: "Goodby, beloved comrade. Goodby, thou undaunted spirit." The General's Negro body servant walked alone and silently near his master's coffin. Many distinguished persons, including Ambassador Myron T. Herrick and Colonel H. H. Harjes of Morgan, Harjes et Cie., were, present...
...Vile is the scout (college servant) who steals the student's dole...