Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kyra Goritzina quotes Thackeray: "Lucky is the man whose servant speaks well of him." In Service Entrance she speaks well of only two of the nine households in which she and Sergei worked. Mr. Pettyjohn (she names no real names), a socialite banker, was agreeable despite the fact that he tested his servants by scattering cigar ashes in out-of-the-way spots. Mrs. Lowell was kind, looked after the Goritzins in illness, raised their wages to $200 a month, reluctantly let them go when she moved into a house that was too big for them to manage. The rest...
...Most unusual kudos was awarded in Washington, D. C. by American University's Chancellor Joseph M. M. Gray, who gave an honorary LL.D. to Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, William H. McReynolds, chosen by 40 personnel administrators as No. 1 U. S. civil servant...
...Invasions. He saw Petra before Doughty, was nearly killed there by the Arabs, muddled through with superb British calm. Fanatics tried to assassinate the author of The Owl and the Pussy-Cat in India, in Turkey. At last Lear settled down in his San Remo villa with an Albanian servant and his cat Foss, "his daily companion for nearly 17 years." There he worked on his illustrations for Tennyson's poems (his musical setting to Tennyson's Tears, Idle Tears, sung in a high thin voice, was long a tear-jerker). He was a prodigious letter writer...
...author, John Jennings, 33, began doing research on the period in 1935, in the belief that "a whopping good story could be written of the time." Next to Valour is indeed a whopper-820 pages, full of "God's wounds" and "I'll warrants" and "Your servant, sirs"-but not such a whopper as Anthony Adverse or Gone With the Wind. Nevertheless, Next to Valour moves quickly and adventurously, should be a natural for Hollywood...
Died. Alfred Winny, 99, voted England's perfect servant, for 72 years in the service of the Churchill-Marlborough family and at his death butler to Lady Edward Spencer-Churchill; of old age; in Windsor, England. Winny despised the cinema, often observed that he was thankful his mistress did not go in for cocktail parties. He died in Lady Edward's best...