Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That might be the best thing that could happen,'' sagely observed an eminent, striped-trousered, black-jacketed British civil servant. "Without some such incident it is difficult for public opinion to grasp the immense significance of the acts of Japan, and unless public opinion is strongly aroused what...
...your servant, but regretfully not so obedient as usual...
...Publisher Joseph Hamblen Sears (president, 1904-18, of D. Appleton & Co.. later head of his own firm) desiring a chef, saw an advertisement, called at the address given, met a short, stocky, quiet, efficient-looking servant, whom he hired on the spot. For 14 years in Mr. Sears' Oyster Bay, L. I. home, Alfred Grouard was a faultless chef who in spare time read religious works, prayed, but never left the estate, never received a letter, visitor, telegram, telephone call. Year ago Alfred Grouard's health failed, but when Mr. Sears called a doctor, Grouard refused...
...stables of the world, has Godfathered two swank racetracks-Long Island's Belmont Park and Miami's Hialeah. Less familiar facts about Sportsman Widener are that his Lynnewood Hall contains the choicest private collection of Old Masters in the U. S., that he himself is a cultural servant of Philadelphia. In that capacity last week 64-year-old "Joe" Widener became the centre of one of the best comedies of art controversy in years...
...Belgrade, Jugoslavia, Sherifa Achmetashevitch's pearls vanished overnight from the table on which she had left them. Weeks later, a servant spied a pearl in a mousehole, scrabbled about until all were recovered. The mouse that stole them had eaten the catgut string...