Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left little wall space for beds. Mr. Toombs corrected this, slightly increased the size and improved the shape of these two rooms (to 13 ft. by 14 ft. and 13 ft. by 19 ft). He took the icebox out of a remote kitchen corner, cut down a huge servant's bathroom to provide a servant's closet, enlarged the living room a trifle (to 20 ft. by 36 ft). Neither amateur nor professional provided more than one closet for two master bedrooms. Facing west over the Hudson toward Father Divine, the "dream house" may be ready for occupancy...
Films scheduled to be shown are 'Steel--Man's Servant," "Norris Dam and TVA Work," and "Grand Coulee...
Motion pictures, entitled "Steel-Man's Servant", "Norris Dam and TVA at Work", and "The Grand Coulee Dam" will be shown on Thursday. Under the auspices of the Engineering Society, the entertainment will be held at the Institute of Geographical Exploration, 2 Divinity Avenue, at 8:30 o'clock...
...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...