Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish-born parents met in the Philippine Islands. His mother's first marriage was to George Sturgis, Boston merchant with offices in Manila, to whom she had borne five children at the time of his death. When she married Agustin Ruiz de Santayana, retired Spanish civil servant, it was with the understanding that the Sturgis children were to be brought up in Boston, as she had promised their father before he died. The family was thus separated, George Santayana remaining with his father in Spain, his mother and her older children moving to Boston, an arrangement that was "friendly...
...sensuous joy of living under the influence of the sea, of sport, of life on the lovely ship. But as he awakens to the world, Oliver also becomes aware of depths of mystery and misery that lie beneath the summer surface of reality. His father's companion and servant is Jim Darnley, engaging, unscrupulous, intelligent Englishman who has left the British Navy as a result of some queer scandal. Attracted by Jim's robust enjoyment of nature, weary of his own brooding conscience, Oliver still cannot free his mind of questions of right and wrong, is offended when...
...result of grueling work. To learn English and to get some schooling, her father bound her out to a Minneapolis family. Great was the sensation when in later years the head of that household refused to pay for a ticket to hear a person sing who had been a "servant" in his family. In Minneapolis Fremstad gave her first formal concert, earned enough to go to Manhattan where the late Frederick Bristol gave her lessons in return for which she played the accompaniments for all his other pupils. As a soloist at St. Patrick's Cathedral she made enough...
...course will probably embrace studies in city planning, public health, budget making, sanitary engineering, public housing and other topics vital to the general welfare which the public servant is supposed to serve. It should make an important contribution to the practicability of college training. Oklahoma Daily
...delivery business. As the U. S. parcel post service developed. Boyd's again found itself in unprofitable competition with the Government, switched to its present business of compiling mailing lists. Thus smart Mr. Williams turned Boyd's old enemy-the U. S. Post Office-into its indispensable servant. The company has on file some 10,000,000 U. S. names. Trade lists start with Abattoirs, end with Zinc. There are about 10,000 different mailing lists, about 50,000 customers. In 1929 Boyd's listed 620,000 persons rated at $50,000 or more. Last week there...