Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reader Alma Jacobsen in her letter-TIME, Aug. 2 wants all of us to take down our hair and weep over the sad state of affairs endured by America's domestic servants. These poor souls who work 24 hours per day for almost nothing, and are cast into the mustiness of the family cellar when not in use. are few and far between. High wages or low wages, the average domestic servant employed in the American home is about as belligerent, independent, and uncooperative as a "spoiled child." They do less and expect more out of life than does...
Fifth-Thou shalt not make gold thy god but thy servant...
...Nazi ministers tackled the Servant Problem in this wise: Heads of families who employ domestic servants may count them as dependent minors on income tax returns. Cooks and chambermaids will pay lower taxes than girls in shops and factories...
First, with appropriate humility, he apologized for his "failure to make the other nations understand Japan's position," advised the Japanese not to waste their time on such "an unworthy servant." Second, he bitterly attacked the "attitude of superiority toward Asiatics" in British Lord Lytton's League of Nations Report on Manchuria. Third, getting his tongue into his bugle, he said, "Japan is in a position never to compromise in any way regarding recognition of Manchukuo...
...cowled man commanded the Friar, and a lambent flame filled the chimney, cheering the room, driving out the chill mist. From the empty cupboard the servant produced a bottle of Maliga sacke and a fat capon. While the spitted fowl drank in the fire the monk talked of himself, of the joys of youth. "Thou'rt younge yet," be smiled. "And so was I, onely, methinks, a few houres gone. In everie pleasure reioycing, I imployed myselfe with all the wilde antickes of the sences. An apless knave, dauncing with the trulls, keping my stomacke better than my soule...