Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio Squaw Kobvello could not have been brought to trial until the pack ice melts. Her case, Arcticly outside the realm of ordinary journalism and ordinary jurisprudence, was briefly summarized thus: "It is the custom in the Arctic for an Eskimo in need of a servant to follow his traplines and do other labor, simply to seize any single woman he sees and take her with him into the wilderness. Schurer did just that to her, Kobvello said. He seized her on Herschel Island, forced her to accompany him on a trapping expedition and made her do all the manual...
...Grandmother Westover, called by everybody Madam, the Westover clan pursues its troubles mixed with fun. Like a small swarm of bees they cluster about Madam, with her silver-headed cane and common sense, as around a queen more fertile than they of purpose and strength. When Tom gets the servant girl in trouble he turns to the grandmother for money to satisfy the girl's father; but grandmother lets him wait. When her simple-minded hired man Curly gets drunk, attacks one of the boys who tease his addled wits, grandmother will not allow the family to shut...
...Angeles, last week, three kidnappers were given ten-years-to-life in prison for abducting a man, his wife and their Japanese servant. Maximum penalty was recommended by the Court...
...summer. "Hermes" Austin, played by R. B. Harrison '32, has shunned romance during vacation time, but produces a photograph which Mac and Tommy, N. P. Farquhar '32 and S. C. Dorman '33, recognize as their big "moment". A chorus of biddies sing appropriate versions of well known songs, "Servant Girls Scrub", and "Old Charles River", were ones we remembered. The conflict in the plot takes the form of a slick-haired product of the most polished clique of society, who soon becomes engaged to the girl, J. H. Pearson '32. This occurs much to the operatic dismay of the hero...
...training or submit to it can hardly be its most open-minded judges. If the principle of giving military instruction in liberal arts colleges is sound, that principle should be extended. If training to become a soldier is college education, then training to become any sort of uniformed public servant is college education, and courses in Letter Carrying, Fire Fighting, Dog Catching, and Street Cleaning, all have their proper place in the curriculum...