Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ancient and vague connections with California, was about to appeal to his Senator William Gibbs McAdoo to save his business. The First Lady took shears, neatly clipped the paragraph, pinned it to a sheet of paper, scrawled on the paper: ''Must this man go? E. R." A servant carried the paper to Presidential Secretary Stephen T. Early. Mr. Early started to set the executive office machinery in motion, then abruptly halted it. The President's Negro valet, Irvin Henry McDuffy, friend of Steve and also a reader of the Evening Star, had shown it to the President...
Since only water was served free, the party was a little stiff until midnight. Then Mrs. Marshall Field arrived from a party she had given for patronesses to keep them out of their servants' party. She made a little speech ignoring the guests' servant status and from the boxes the British butlers bayed, like the House of Lords, "Hear! Hear!" Soon thereafter guests stopped watching each other. The hotel was serving drinks in two dining rooms whence presently came impromptu chorus singing. A delegation of White Star Line stewards arrived from the S. S. Majestic to scrape acquaintance...
...illegally extending their authority into the Saar have received official confirmation by the publication of the text of a report made to the League of Natians' Secretariat by Mr. G. G. Knox, president of the League's Saar governing commission. In this report Mr. Knox, a former British civil servant, reveals that the Nazis have subtly penetrated the Saar to such an extent that they have set up what amounts to an extra-legal government that in many cases wields more power than the actual governing body. Nasi Storm Troops are secretly maintained and drilled and exercised despite the fact...
...Marie's mistress, Josef has done his master a good turn, and candlelight is indicated for both parlor and pantry. Good shot: Josef posing as the Prince, looking unhappy when the Prince's telephone rings, brightening when Marie suggests he answer it as the Prince's servant...
Real protagonist of the story is the capitalist system. Its "hero" victim, Karl, bandy-legged legitimized bastard of a Viennese trolley conductor and a servant girl, grows up in his city slum to the slow realization that his father is a drunkard, his mother a drudge, and he himself doomed to serfdom unless he can somehow get himself into the white-collar class. He is almost there when the War swallows him. Vomited out after the armistice as an unemployed veteran, complete with scars and medals, he starves, emigrates to Sweden, goes home to more starvation. Down the long scale...