Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chanted folk songs. An Amerindian woman presented a marionette show, Irish delegates a jig. President Watt demanded that Country Women ''shed that inferiority complex," symbolically urged the overturn of the present status in which the "cook" (woman) is dependent on the "gardener" (man). "Make the gardener the servant of the cook," thundered she. Michigan's Dr. Dora H. Stockman read a poem she had dedicated to A. C. W. W. Last verse: Great God of all the nations, We come a mighty throng With hand clasped hand in greeting We sing a glorious song. A prayer...
...audience, wheeled on his podium, rapped smartly for attention. Toscanini was giving his last U. S. concert not for acclaim, not for money but for the benefit of the Orchestra which has played for him during the past eleven seasons. Once his baton was raised he became the humble servant of Beethoven and Wagner, began by making the first Leonore overture seem so buoyant and tuneful that it was hard to regard him as a conductor nearing...
Thomas S. Lamont, Morgan partner and Harvard graduate, will take part in the discussion at the Banking Table. Herbert Bayward Swope, prominent journalist, author, and public servant, will preside at the final banquet. Louis Domeratzky of the Bureau of Foreign Trade, will take part in the discussion at the Foreign Trade Table...
...service last week. The base pay of the British soldier has been raised from 27? to 50? a day about ⅔ as much as the U. S. buck private.' If his ability to polish boots and clean pipes wins him a job as an officer's servant, he can count on another $5 a month, and if he stays in the army long enough to win the stripes, red sash and silver-headed cane of a sergeant, he can earn more than $17.50 a week...
...immediately became so vexed that, together with a few bitter remarks, he stuck his arm out the window and rudely motioned for the Ford to pass. And pass he did. But alas! it was no gentleman driving the Ford. On the contrary, it was a blue-uniformed, silver-buckled servant of Massachusetts, a man with positively no sense of chivalry. He was not interested in an honorable victory but insisted upon a humiliating defeat, and ordered the Chevrolet to the curb...