Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...origin of the present conviction that these things need restatement rests in the eloquent Phi Beta Kappa speech delivered last spring by Mr. Wilbur C. Cross of Connecticut. I may be mistaken, but that highly-touted bit of oratory, written by one who has been called in enlightened public servant and uttered before presumptive students, had all the carmarks of political device. Mr. Cross was content to run the customary Deweyan gamut, and to garnish his loopholes with a fine show of classicism...
...seen the world and not missed much to the point. Sentimentalists find Maugham cynical, but in fact he is a psychological realist. Even sentimentalists find his common-sense melodramas refreshing after a surfeit of romance. This collection of stories is dedicated to one Ah King, a Onetime Chinese servant of Author Maugham's, who traveled with him for six months, served his master perfectly but inhumanly, surprised him when they said good-bye by shedding tears. The title's only relevance is the fact that Author Maugham thought up these stories while Ah King was his servant. Some...
First he dreams the perfect murder. But when he puts it into execution he finds circumstances altered. His hand trembles. Sevilla's servant has not been sent away as Derwent had planned, but is waiting in the pantry for his apprehensive master's signal. Worse, the girl, too, is in the house. The results of Derwent's manipulations with a wall clock may puzzle you, but if you think it over a while you will find that Playwright Armstrong has played fair. Cleverest twist to the whole bag of theatrical tricks occurs when Derwent saves himself from...
...Emperor's life at the battle of Solferino. He was ennobled and given the Order of Maria Theresa. When a children's reader appeared with a flattering but garbled account of his exploit, he resigned from the army, brought his only son up to be a civil servant. Son Trotta, all his life a good official against his will, brought Grandson Trotta up to be a soldier. Grandson Trotta was not cut out for the army. He did his best, but when his part in a duelling scrape got him transferred from the Uhlans...
...when Benny Bache was only seven, his famed grandfather took him abroad to school him. Franklin gave Benny every advantage he had never had : dancing, deportment and French in Paris, Greek, Latin and virtue in Geneva. Franklin hoped Benny would become a high servant of the State. Benny was quite willing, but when he came home again to Philadelphia, at 16, he found that his grandfather's fame kept getting in his way. Franklin was a national hero but Washington and the Federalists disliked his philosophy and feared his politics: they shut every political door in his grandson...