Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doing on the road but for Kempton-who confessed quite unashamedly to playing these tricks on his employes-to lie in ambush for the drivers in this sort of way is absolutely repellent to any person who has any feeling for the principles that should prevail between master and servant...
...offense of 100% incorrupt Sir Christopher Bullock was "indiscretion," almost the only offense with which a British Civil Servant is ever charged. In reporting to the Prime Minister the investigators indicated their feeling that the Permanent Secretary to the Air Ministry had looked forward to quitting the Civil Service and becoming Chairman of Imperial Airways, and with this in mind had suggested that "a high honor should be conferred upon [Sir Eric Campbell] Geddes [now Chairman of Imperial Airways] in recognition of his work in establishing Empire air mail services...
...Lottie Bruhn of El Paso, Tex., who dropped from sight after his death last September. Last week, as the pawnbroker wrote to Skull & Bones in New Haven which immediately bought Coy's relics, newshawks hustled around to see Lottie Bruhn Coy, found her working as a servant. Said she: ''Yes, I'm Mrs. Ted Coy. How on earth did you find me here? . . . I haven't any money. . . . Once I went five days in this town without a bite to eat. . . . I thank God for a sense of humor. If I didn't have...
...free dancing in the Platinum Salon, a double-edged bill consisting of a stage show starring the harmonizing Pickens Sisters of radio fame and a new Robert Taylor opus called "Private Number." It appears to be a romantic sort of parlor comedy with Loretta Young playing the seductive servant girl and getting all in love with the handsome rich boy. They go through the customary trials and after a reassuring struggle against the forces of convention and class feeling emerge safe into Curid's pure light...
Private Number (Twentieth Century-Fox) is that old stage play Common Clay, in which the beautiful young servant girl's love for the handsome collegiate son of her employers runs its course without benefit of clergy. The higher official moral standards of Hollywood bring Matrimony to Ellen (Loretta Young) and Dick (Robert Taylor) quite early in their attachment. He is home for the summer, and she has only lately taken service under Wroxton (Basil Rathbone), a tyrannical butler who collects a personal assessment, sometimes amatory, from the employes he engages for the Winfields. Failing to collect from Ellen, Wroxton...