Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indiscretion is the one thing a member of the British Foreign Office must never commit, and last week London rang with the discovery that on March 3 an indiscretion was committed by Civil Servant Thomas Henry Glasse...
...Duke of Alba and his staff," added Civil Servant Glasse as his clinching argument and indiscretion, "are regarded officially as diplomats in all but name...
...curt and terse a description of a man whose whole life was devoted and sacrificed to the happiness and welfare of young boys, that TIME should attempt to destroy with one malicious and ill-chosen word the work and efforts of a lifetime of such an outstanding public servant, both as friend and clergyman...
...characters are stencils: the shaggy, hard-cidery old grandpa; the devoted, 'disapproving old grandma; the pre-Freudian, high-neck-and-long-sleeves maiden aunt; the warm-hearted servant girl (Peggy O'Donnell). Some of the humor gets grey hairs: The tenth time grandma upbraids grandpa for swearing is scarcely as funny as the first. The narrative, toward the end, begins to stagger and stutter. And Mr. Brink (Frank Conroy) stays up in the apple tree long enough to make the captious wonder if it isn't time for the leaves to turn. But that may be because...
...confused with the British poet and civil servant who wrote...