Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...typical delinquent, dull in school, quit early to work as a servant or factory hand. She played with bad boys and girls, would not go to Sunday school, often ran away from home or "bunked...
Before a shimmering white mansion actors in brown and green hold up white cotton stalks. King Mumbra is now a house servant. The White Mistress tells the story of Moses in Egypt. A rifle sounds. The lights flash back to the cotton field. The chorus sings "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen'' against a mounting counterpoint of cannon roar. "John Brown's Body" alternates with "Dixie." A clash of cymbals brings sudden silence. A Negro Abraham Lincoln reads excerpts from the Emancipation Proclamation. From the cotton fields the crouching figures straighten up to sing ''Rise, Shine, Give...
...must always be an occasion of national regret when a public servant who has given the greater part of his life to unselfish service passes away...
...Franklin Roosevelt, the Speaker's death meant more than the loss of a public servant. It meant the loss of the servant of the New Deal who had the job of keeping a rubber-stamp Congress stamping confirmation on the New Deal's desires. Some questioned the efficiency but none the loyalty of Representative Rainey as stamp handler. These pointed out that he had been given a more stamp-like Congress than any Speaker in recent years and yet he had not prevented the overriding of the President's Veterans veto...
...hard-won laurels. He was over 70 when for the last time he led an army against the French. Outnumbered four to one, he maneuvered skilfully, fought no decisive action. Tired almost to death, he went back to the daily political grind in Vienna. One morning his servant found him with his boots off at last...