Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decorous concluding words were: "When this statement is ended my discussion of the question is closed. I believe the character and conduct of every public servant, great and small, should be subject to the constant scrutiny of the people. This must be true if a democracy serves its purpose. It is in this spirit that I now bid those who have been listening to me goodnight...
...child turn the McLeod household into one of the least cheerful places in the Middle West. Most exotic of the five novelettes is the somewhat scrambled A Cargo of Parrots, by a pseudonymous English writer 25 years resident in Africa. Central character of the book is a remarkable native servant named Ramazini, whose dying German bwana (master) instructs him to deliver a collection of parrots to London. Against the sadistic treatment of a tramp steamer's first officer, Ramazini opposes first his extraordinary dignity, finally a lethal iron bar. Loving Memory, most ambitious, least successful of the five...
...eccentric villa on Lago di Garda. According to latest reports they still spend the first four days waiting to be received in sumptuous comfort, find their closets full of the most expensive and entrancing lingerie, receive every two or three hours a present carried in by a servant, such as a ring, box of chocolates, flowers, a book. Instead of an orgy, however, the big night when it finally comes now consists in listening to the Poet-Prince talk with vivid force and imagery about politics, poetry, religion and LOVE until about 7 the next morning, when his guest staggers...
...fourth-generation butler and valet to the Mariassy family. Old Count Mariassy (Lumsden Hare), perennially in-&-out Prime Minister of Hungary, cannot so much as button his waistcoat without Jean's help, boasts that in this admirably efficient and self-effacing young man he has the perfect servant. What is the Mariassy family's dismay to discover that Jean has been elected to Parliament as a Socialist deputy. The first shock over, Count Mariassy is rather tickled, but his daughter (Elissa Landi) is furious. Jean continues to serve as loyal valet, but things can never be the same...
...cooler hours just after dawn. Every Egyptian town of importance had been equipped by the Government in recent weeks with a radio loudspeaker in the public square and the whole kingdom could listen for the first time to its sovereign. "I pledge myself to be the first servant of my country," broadcast Farouk I. "I thank everyone, the Egyptian people and also foreigners, for the loyalty they have shown to the fatherland and to myself...