Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afford to lose the skill and energy of these young men and women." Employers "in all types of industries" will be asked to take on the Government's wards as apprentices. Some will be taken into Government offices in order "to develop a new type of trained public servant." What hard-headed realists could not understand, however, and what President Roosevelt's sweeping blueprint failed to make clear was just how "all types of industries" could or would make room for these energetic youngsters when there were estimated to be no less than 9,711,000 energetic adults last month...
HENRY AGARD WALLACE: A public servant of deep faith and high integrity who finds courage to attempt an uncharted journey in our modern wilderness...
...McDowell entered the operating room, threw his hat, cane and coat on a chair, rolled up his sleeves, prayed: "Direct me, Oh God, in performing this operation for I am but an instrument in Thy hands and am but Thy servant. If it is Thy will, spare this afflicted woman...
...Edna-Ferberish servant-girl is torn between her love for her fiancé and the flattering dependence of her Jewish "family...
...degree in her imperial household. If her enraged whist partner threw his cards at her feet, she would merely call the onlookers to witness that she had played her hand right. Once when she had an urgent letter to send and all her bell-pealing brought no servant, she found the lackeys busy playing cards, offered to take one of the men's hands while he went out to post the letter. She loved to laugh, and her guffaw was famous. But nothing suggestive ever roused it: only something very innocent or something very obscene...