Word: servant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Three servant girls brought to a newspaper office their combined savings of 100 pesos (approximately $83.75), asked where they could find North American pesos...
...princess. Into her lonely castle comes a nobleman (Conway Tearle) in the guise of a servant?bound by oath to her brother's service? for a term of years. Shortly thereafter comes the sinister Due de Tours (Wallace Beery) seeking her love. How she repulsed him and how the servant rescued her from his drunken embrace comprise the burden of the plot. There is abundant death and sword play. There is sentiment and spectacle. There is an absence of pretense...
Colonel Hilder's scheme is taken seriously by a large number of people interested in solving the domestic servant problem. Said Colonel Hilder : " We can't force the servant girl back into domestic service, but we can win her back. We must make her understand that her work is honorable. . . . Why not recruit an Order for domestic service on lines similar to the Red Cross? Call it the Gold Cross Order, and insist on a standard of efficiency and good conduct for membership. Have a recognized diploma and badge and invite women of good position to take...
...about him who seeks to build solidly but falls? The work that he has not done is left undone, but if this be from lack of tools or opportunity, and not from negligence or moral fault, he can expect to hear the judgement, "well done, good and faithful servant", for that comes as the reward not of success, but of moral effort...
...what else can one speak on such a day? Fannie Hurst, not wanting to be photographed, though looking quite as radiant as usual, told me that she has chosen Lummucks as the title of her new novel−the one which is a study of a foreign born servant girl working in America. George Middleton, the playwright, excited because of the difficulties between the Actor's Equity Association and the theatrical managers, and concerned for fear the poor author would fall in ruins between them: Here, too, Jesse Lynch Williams, a compiler of Why Not? and Why Marry? Clayton...