Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took Marie for lack of something better, and hoped through her to get at her master's jewels. When Babylas told Marie his scheme she was horrified, carried her fear so openly on her face that M. Delos took it for an invitation and complacently accepted it. Marie, servant and a yes-girl, wrung her hands and said nothing, not even when she discovered she was pregnant. As soon as Mme Delos saw what was Marie's trouble she fired...
James A. ("Bud") Stillman Jr., eldest son of the bride, who married a servant at his family's fishing camp at Grand Anse, Que., three years ago. In 1921 he and the groom, longtime friend of the family, searched for evidence to aid Mrs. Stillman defend herself against her husband's divorce suit. Last week he was unable to leave his studies at Harvard Medical School, did not witness his mother's marriage ceremony. But his wife was her mother-in-law's maid of honor...
...saved her pennies, now has a house on Long Island, another in California, at both of which she indulges her fondness for elaborate aviaries and collecting fountain pens. She-Wolf, is her first cinema; in it her loyal secretary Lillian Harmer plays the part of Hetty Green's servant. Der Grosse Tenor (UFA). Possibly his panoramic countenance and the slow elaboration of detail to which Cinemactor Emil Jannings is addicted have helped to convince critics that his characterizations are more searching than they really are. Nonetheless, he often contrives to take a banal situation-in this case that...
Died. Brigadier General Robert Henry Dunlap, 51, of the U. S. Marine Corps, veteran of Spanish-American, Boxer Rebellion, World War battles; in a landslide at Cinq-Mars, France, as he attempted to save the life of a Mme Briand,* servant at a chateau. Hearing Mme Briand's cries in a barn cut into a chalk cliff by the River Loire, General Dunlap rushed in, followed by M. Briand. Earth and rock buried the three. Next day diggers found Mme Briand alive...
...LADY OF PARIS - Colette - Boni ($2.50). This sequel to Claudine at School continues Claudine's diary from the point where she left Montigny and her school girl days, went to Paris with her absent-minded widower father. Seventeen, with no companions but her cat Fanchette and an old servant whose trustiness was slightly surpassed by her bawdiness, with a father who rarely knew where she was or what she was doing, only Claudine's sturdy female common sense kept her out of serious scrapes. As it was, she had some minor adventures which a mother would have deprecated...