Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...position brought added social responsibility and emoluments not in proportion to the increasing requisite expenditures, this country has lost many able diplomats. However, steps are being taken to mitigate the present evil and to bring about circumstances in which the diplomat with wealth is not preferred to the servant with manifest ability in appointments to the more important posts...
...trip to Iceland, wrote many a book on erotic craft & customs of the Orient. Some spoke of him as "ruffian Dick" and "that blackguard Burton," but nobody ever called him a coward or a bore. The East India Company was glad to get rid of such an embarrassingly spectacular servant. Her Majesty's Government grudgingly gave him poor, unimportant consular posts?Fernando Po, Damascus, Trieste?afraid of what he would do. In his last post (Trieste) the aging adventurer made his only lucky strike?a translation of the "Arabian Nights," The Thousand Nights & A Night, which brought...
Getting Married. This Theatre Guild revival of George Bernard Shaw's matrimonial polemic is well-staged, well-directed, well-acted. It presents a number of classic theatrical characters?the braggart soldier, the canny servant, the benign prelate, the worldly-wise woman. Worthiest of these folk, of course, are permitted to toss sound Shavian doctrine between themselves like a medicine ball. Mr. Shaw's sensible precept is that marriage is not a completely blessed state, but that there is no better solution for the social problems of men and women to date. His recommendations: more flexible divorce laws, more respect...
...neither Saint nor Mahatma" [i. e. 'Great Soul'], he told the clamoring worshipping populace gravely. "You must not think me supernatural. I am only a satyagrahi [one who practices truth force, love force, soul force]. I am but a humble servant. I am only common clay...
...Jenny" in the story) was the daughter of a literary hacketeer, he ("David") the scion of a civil servant. Neither had money, both were excited about literature. Her mother disliked and distrusted David and his untrimmed locks, discouraged his steady advances toward her daughter. When Jenny's father died she took a job as governess, managed to see her lover occasionally. Since both disapproved of marriage they planned to live together secretly; but, strong on fancies, they were short on facts. "We were still very ignorant of sex, and only knew in a vague way through the reading of poetry...