Word: servante
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...financial affairs and holding Hart in leash, seems to be the businessman of the pair. But Hart, who employs a business manager, who "runs a temperature" when he does not feel like working, who has to be yanked out of bed late in the day by a determined Negro servant girl, and who prefers to meet a question with a wisecrack rather than an answer, very likely knows to the fourth decimal place the dollars-and-cents value of his "temperament." Aside from Jerome Kern years ago, Rodgers does not feel that anyone has influenced him musically. He hates swing...
When Major Buchan orders a family of slaves freed, Posey calls it sentimentality, sells them down the river and applies the money on Buchan debts. But when his own house servant (who is also his half brother) is shot for imputed rape. Posey shoots the white man, who is the narrator's oldest brother. As another result of Posey's following his own rather than the Buchan social codes, his wife is driven crazy. Yet the narrator withholds moral judgment; the tragedy, he concludes, is one in which Fate pulls the strings...
...transport's crew and passengers went overboard into the river and the Japanese planes fired on them in the water, continuing the work of extermination. Pilot Woods was carried away by a swift current and reached shore in safety. Radio Operator Joe Loh and a passenger, Chinese Civil Servant C. N. Lou, with a bullet in his neck, also escaped. Two days later, while the British gunboat Cicala stood by, Chinese extricated three bullet-riddled bodies from the transport, sunk in 40 feet of water. Among the missing were President Hsu Sing-loh of the National Commercial Savings Bank...
...Treasury until after the Armistice. "To make it a people's Treasury rather than a bankers' Treasury," McAdoo made national banks pay 2 % interest on Government deposits, helped Carter Glass push through the Federal Reserve Act. The War saw McAdoo's zenith as a public servant: he issued $370,000,000 in emergency currency in three months, ran the spy-hunting Secret Service, floated four Liberty Loans, the Fourth being the biggest of all bond issues (23,000,000 subscriptions totaling $6,989,047,000), served as Director General of all U. S. railroads after Wilson took...
...mainly they wrestled with the Iraq servant problem (they had 15, costing a total of $153 a month). When they imported garden seed from England, the gardener threw out everything except onion seed, because he didn't like lettuce and such stuff. When a houseboy was married, they were put to much bother to provide a special room, because young Mohammed didn't want the customary wedding-night snoopers hanging around his door. One servant had a mania for jabbing people with forks. Household provisions disappeared as by magic. When a discharged servant was told he had been...