Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Permanent head (director) of the I. L. O. is a tall, angular, alert, onetime British Civil Servant named Harold Beresford Butler, who attended the first I. L. O. conference in Washington in 1919. In 1934 President Roosevelt took the U. S. into the I. L. O. after an 18-year abstention...
Pretty Betsy Canning was a long time finding out that Husband Alec was not the man she, thought she married. For 15 years she had been the wife of an obscure civil servant who seemed as pleased as she was with their three children, a tasteful circle of friends as decently well off as themselves. Suddenly, after Alec's and Johnnie Graham's amateur operetta had made a sensation, she found herself a back number entertaining mobs of Alec's "Yahoo" theatrical acquaintances. He began living in a "genial, gregarious, alcoholic mist" and now declared that their...
Peering down the Johnson road, James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois discerned the same lurking bogey. Solemnly he recalled that seizure of factories and industrial unrest had preceded the rise of Fascist and Nazi dictators. "Hear your humble servant!'' warned courtly Senator "Jim Ham." "In every hour and condition such as now surrounds this our Government there awaits another Hitler and there lurks in the shadows another Mussolini...
...favorite pastime of Steamship Magnate Bruce Vail (Colin Clive) is tormenting his wife (Jean Arthur). When she threatens to put an end to his diversion by divorce, he sends his chauffeur (Ivan Lebedeff) to her rooms, plans to trap her in the servant's arms, nullifying the divorce under the English statute that the complainant in such a suit must remain blameless during the six months between the provisional and final decrees. In the next room Paul Dumond (Charles Boyer) hears the fracas, ends it by knocking out the chauffeur. When the obsessed husband and his witness enter, Dumond...
...Archbishop . . . and he became more priestly than the priests, he ostentatiously and offensively adopted an ascetic manner of life, he openly abandoned every policy that he had heretofore supported; he affirmed immediately that there was a higher order than that which our King, and he as the King's servant, had for so many years striven to establish; and that--God knows why--the two orders were incompatible...