Word: servant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Budapest was reported the timely finding of Schubert's Gastein symphony, missing now for 102 years. It came from one Feri Vambery, a book collector, who got it from Irme Havasi, a bookkeeper who inherited it from a great granduncle, servant in the house of Count Esterházy at Zélesz (Hungary). There the shy, round Schubert used to go to teach young Caroline Esterházy. He left his manuscript one day and Great Granduncle Havasi stole it, left it when he died as his legacy. Last year the Columbia Phonograph Co. offered...
...have believed that Davey "play-acted" a gallant knight outnumbered and surrounded by ruffians, but Sophie of the flaming red pigtails had caught him at it, and all her life she tried to reconcile that adventurous romantic spirit with the David, right hand man at the bank, David, beloved servant of the community, David, matter-of-course slave to his relatives. "Perhaps Davey will see his way clear to ..." send a bespectacled niece to finishing school, house a carping old-maid cousin, finance the whims and mistresses of a charming but debauched artist brother. Sophie married Davey...
English tycoons bought, last week, expensive paintings. Lord Melchett paid $200,000 for a Rembrandt portrait of Rembrandt's servant Hindrickje Stofiels, who stood stolidly by the artist in penurious years. Sir Philip Sassoon, Under Secretary of State for Air, bought a Gainsborough portrait of the artist at 21, his wife & daughter...
...little girls' papa, Major von Hindenburg, only son of the President, was the only male, except a trusted body servant, who was privileged to travel to Schorfheide with Der Alte Feldmarschall and there to celebrate by sitting...
Lord Melchett, onetime Sir Alfred Mond, paid $200,000 for a servant who can do no work. But the servant is pleasant to look at-for it is a painting by Rembrandt of his own servant, Hendrickje Stoffels. Sir Joseph Duveen, the seller, said that he was glad an Englishman got the painting, though an American would have paid him a higher price...