Word: servant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After 25 years' service full professors at Yale should earn enough money "to maintain a home in a ten-room house which he owns free of mortgage, to keep one servant, and to pay for some occasional service, and to provide an education for his children on an equality with that obtained by the general run of students at this university. Life at this level now costs about $15,000 or $16,000 a year...
Black Sadie is a common cornfield nigger raised to trusted though untrustworthy house servant, and by chance transported to "Easter Orange," N. J. There a wealthy, ridiculous patroness of the new art "discovers" her; it seems that Sadie's angular primitive skull is "the focus of the geometry." Cubism is at its height; the Negro fad starts its blatant vogue with a nude of Black Sadie. From popular artists' model, Sadie proceeds to nightclub fame ending abruptly with a row, murder, discreet fadeaway. On the whole she is glad to be shet of no 'count white folks...
Both biographies exonerate the Empress, but from extremes of viewpoint. With infinite richness of detail, and anecdote of close personal relationship that ended only hours before the tragic finale, the Baroness depicts her mistress as devoted mother, and faithful servant of Russia, indefatigable in charity, painstaking in her advice to the tsar. The Princess, on the contrary, emphasizes Alexandra's ineptitude for social leadership; her temperamental incompatibility with Russian subtleties of mood and method; her stubborn persistence in meddling with political affairs which she did not understand...
...awfully clever fellow, besides being extremely goodhearted. He is so thoughtful, too. One rather chilly day as I came to the executive palace to work on his portrait I was pleasantly surprised to find the room heated. His servant then said to me, 'Oh, that was done at the President's personal order. He thought you might find it disagreeable to work in a cold room...
...Hughes marked him, later appointed him his gubernatorial secretary and right hand man. A graduate of Harvard (1888), 18 years a newspaperman-reporter, editor, political pundit-he spent the last 20 years of his life in public service, representing Mr. Hughes's "ideal of the faithful, intelligent public servant, the sort that makes democracy worth while...