Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front-page news day after day, week after week. The "corpus"which one woman sought from the other was that of a 15-week-old baby whom both claimed to have borne. It had taken three weeks for Commissioner Limbaugh to hear their tales. Plaintiff Anna Ware, broadfaced Pennsylvania servant girl, said she had been working for a couple in Newtown, Pa. when the man of the house got her into trouble. His wife sent her to St. Louis where the wife's mother was a midwife. In her house Anna said she bore her baby Aug. 17. Next...
Herriot's Beethoven is not only eloquently written but shows a rich understanding of Beethoven's music and the environment in which he lived. Author Harriot visited Bonn, pictures the mean airless garret in which little Ludwig was born, the courageous mother who had been a servant girl, the drunken father who kept the boy practicing at the harpsichord for cruel lengths of time. When Beethoven went to Vienna he was an awkward, ill-kempt young man, flagrantly boorish at the fashionable soirées where he would sit down at the piano, pour out one improvisation after...
...gravity which compel sympathy and which make the drama as vivid to us as could possibly be expected. In the difficult role of young Alving, her son, Harry Ellerbe, performs with deep sincerity and skill. One Munson is properly earthy and youthful in the part of Regina, the servant girl and McKay Morris as Pastor Manders and Raymond O'Brien as Jacob Engstrand both create vivid personalities...
...which Italians and French statesmen have been in course of making with the British (TIME, Oct. 14). In Paris its technical and colonial aspects have now been negotiated outside the fevered atmosphere of Britain's General Election by Mr. Maurice Peterson, the quietly efficient British Foreign Office civil servant charged with Ethiopian affairs. Mr. Peterson and his French counterpart, Count Rene de Saint-Quentin, placed at the disposal of Sir Samuel, Premier Laval and Baron Aloisi last week the negotiated basis. Next logical step was to get "The Deal's" elements up into a respectable League atmosphere...
...have the honor to be, with much esteem and respect sir, Your Excellancy's most obediant and humble servant, GEORGE WASHINGTON...