Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...judiciary have all too unwillingly found themselves immersed. Rumors of bribes and office-buying filled the air with acrid odors. Someone traced down several of these odors and, strangely enough, found them sadly true. That someone was Isador Kresel, respected member of the New York bar, an unfailing public servant, and daemoniac detective hounding the paths of careless judiciaries. There ensued sudden resignations, mysterious disappearance and, still more strangely, several convictions. The innocent trembled with the guilty as Justice walked without its customary blind staggers...
...with the following cast: Herr Shaaf Charles Kraus Anna Semenova (Islaev's mother) Minna Phillips Natalie Petrovna (Islaev's wife) Alla Nazimova Mikhail Aleksandrovitch Rakitin Earle Larrimore Lizaveta Bogdanovna (a companion) Virginia Gregori Kolia (Islaev's son) Norman Williams Aleksei Nikolaevich Bieliaev (Kolia's tutor) James Todd Matviei (A servant) Walter Coy Ignati Ilich Spigelski (A doctor) Cecil Yapp Viera Aleksandrovna (Islaev's ward) Franesca Bruning Arkadi Sergicich Islaev (A landowner) Edward Arnold Katla (a maidservant) Glesca Marshall Afanasi Ivanyo Bolshintsov Henry Travers...
...Baumes Law, academic Jones Laws, and the like, the universities keep multiplying their mainly futile attempts to dissolve or break down his resistance. At Rollins College we abolish the motive for it. This we accomplish by prohibiting recitations, prohibiting lectures, and to a large extent making the professors the servants, rather than the masters, of the students. Though a fine sense of bigness results from defying a master, what possible exhilaration is there in defying a servant...
...erudite Lotos Club. Last week the Lotos Club again served as a forum for a No. i Democrat-Owen D. Young. Not Mr. Young, as honor guest, but Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, the club's president, gave the event a political twist. Introducing Mr. Young as a "public servant," Dr. Butler said: "Whether a public servant receives office or not is accidental, and if that public servant does assume office by accident, it is as apt as not to reduce a great deal of the public servant's public service." Though the gist of Mr. Young...
...modern University must deal with modern problems. The function of the University as a public servant is liable to be forgotten in the endowed institution. As in the problems of legal aid and unemployment, so in medicine is the place of the Liberal University with the pioneer, rather than the antiquary...