Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Communists lying in the station, waiting to be taken out and shot. Man's Fate is not a pleasant book but few readers will soon forget their encounter with it. The Author, at 32, is already acknowledged as a front-rank European writer. Son of a French civil servant, he went to Indo-China at 20. made an archaeological expedition to Cambodia and Siam, was not only an eyewitness of some of China's bloodiest revolutionary years (1925-27) but an actor in them. He was Commissioner of Propaganda for the revolutionary government of the South...
...Theodore Roosevelt Sr. pensioned 60-year-old Negro Charlie Lee. Son of General Robert E. Lee's slave body servant, Charlie Lee was engaged by President Roosevelt in 1902, served him until his death as personal bodyguard, has since been Mrs. Roosevelt's chauffeur. In Lee's home on Sagamore Hill hangs the most famed of Roosevelt's African hunting trophies, the original Big Stick...
...they have experienced it. But with that grisly bout of Satanism they swing into action, shrieking, shooting, skulking, fainting, sprinting, cursing and puffing. Lugosi's daughter (Lucille Lund) inexplicably appears on the embalming table in the cellar. Lugosi and Karloff grapple over the table, are separated by a servant. Lugosi commences skinning Karloff alive with a scalpel. The U. S. visitors escape the house. Dynamite blows the whole situation to bits...
...abstract theory . . . It is the method of freedom. The authority of the government is used to assist men in maintaining the security of an ordered life. The state, though it is powerful, is not the master of the people, but remains, as it must where there is liberty, their servant...
...palmy side of his boss, so consequently, when his table-setting expert returned, he fared forth to the President's lodgings in order to put to the most rigorous inspection possible, his employee's handiwork. With an accomplice, he had himself admitted to the dining salon by a servant, and right away commenced volubly, to a degree which he was certain could not fall to reach the right ears, to find fault with every least possible detail, accompanying those derogatory remarks with gestures whose practical results went merely to disarrange what had been in effect, a perfectly acceptable place...