Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Claud George Bowes-Lyon Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, died of a heart attack during the suspense of waiting for the Duchess of York to give birth to a possible heir to the Throne. Britain was oblivious but tears glistened in the Earl of Strathmore's eyes as his servant was laid away in the castle grounds. On the coffin was a huge wreath of red and white roses from the Duke & Duchess of York...
...life history of Rembrandt is obscure and conjectural. It is known that he was born in 1606, son of a Leyden miller, that he studied only briefly. He married the rich Saskia van Ulenburgh, and after her death took his servant Hendrikje Stoffels as mistress. He enjoyed popular favor for a time, but lost it when his Night Watch heartily displeased the members of the Banning Cock guard, who had paid for their portraits, not for a dramatic episode. Bankruptcy followed plenty. He died in disgrace and poverty. In addition to many miraculous etchings, there are hundreds of paintings signed...
Common Clay (Fox). When this play won a Harvard prize some years ago (1915) it was considered sensational for its courtroom scene. In a devious manner, with this scene as the climax, the heroine, a night-club hostess who sought reformation as a servant girl only to be betrayed by her boss's son, wins a husband for herself and gets possession of the fatherless baby by proving that she herself is the illegitimate daughter of the attorney defending the rich boy. Somehow a few moments of real dramatic power have been concocted out of this stuff and such...
Died. Signora Elvira Donturi Puccini, widow of Composer Giacomo Puccini (Manon Lescaut, La Boheme, Tosca, Madame Butterfly); of heart disease; at Milan, Italy. In 1909 Signora Puccini served five months in jail for driving to suicide a servant girl whom she accused of having an affair with her husband. After the girl died she was cleared of Signora Puccini's accusation. Puccini died in 1924, aged...
...reception committee, persuaded him to enter her home on the pretext that he would thereby give profound pleasure to an old family slave on the brink of death. The President, all innocent of the trick, was her brief guest, took a cup of tea from an ancient Negro servant. Claiming that the family of the President's hostess had owned no slaves, that she herself had hired the old negro for this occasion, the other ladies of the city were indignant. Before that, they said, she had paraded an adopted baby as her own and a Louisiana woman, member...