Word: servante
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Buying from the Co-operative means that the housewife or a servant must stand in line for hours every day, and when she gets to the Co-operative window she must take whatever the overworked comrade clerk has left, and sometimes he or she has nothing left, slams the grocery window. Not only in Moscow but throughout the Soviet Union such standing in line is a common sight in every city. In remote Alma Ata, in romantic Samarkand, patient women, whether they can read or write or not, guard jealously their "food books," in which the Co-operative clerks enter...
Died. Signora Elvira Donturi Puccini, widow of Composer Giacomo Puccini (Manon Lescaut, La Boheme, Tosca, Madame Butterfly); of heart disease; at Milan, Italy. In 1909 Signora Puccini served five months in jail for driving to suicide a servant girl whom she accused of having an affair with her husband. After the girl died she was cleared of Signora Puccini's accusation. Puccini died in 1924, aged...
...reception committee, persuaded him to enter her home on the pretext that he would thereby give profound pleasure to an old family slave on the brink of death. The President, all innocent of the trick, was her brief guest, took a cup of tea from an ancient Negro servant. Claiming that the family of the President's hostess had owned no slaves, that she herself had hired the old negro for this occasion, the other ladies of the city were indignant. Before that, they said, she had paraded an adopted baby as her own and a Louisiana woman, member...
...elements of Byronic philosophy, style or autobiography are revealed by Byron's treatment of the following subjects? (Answer with regard to ten of the thirteen subjects): (a) Gibbon, (b) Azo, (c) pedigress, (d) England, (e) any sort of bird, (f) digestion, (g) Clarens, (h) Juan's mother, (i) Cavalier servant, (j) "The castled crag of Drachenfels" (k) Medora, (l) Laura, (m) In medias...
...Mahatma-like figure who led his Saxon beggar-followers with the sign of the Cross. At length he so maddened the King that four Norman nobles took the royal wrath as a pretext for slaughtering this enemy of their oligarchy. The narrator is one John, the Crossbowman, Swabian body-servant of the King...