Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lest his arrest lead to violence on the spot, and the Prime Minister had pledged both his own and his Cabinet's word to keep the secret. When it leaked out he saw red, jumped to the conclusion that he must have been betrayed by some disloyal civil servant, invoked the Official Secrets Act, ordered Scotland Yard to get the traitor...
...consisted in pledges of frantic loyalty to the President by the Deputies. As a matter of fact several are known sympathizers of Judge Manuel Jesús Urbina of the Iquitos Judicial Court who was under arrest last week charged with instigating the 17-year-old pistol carrier, his servant. Therefore the cheers of all the Deputies, their cries of "Viva Leguía! Live, live 10,000 years!" were especially loud...
...authentic prince is thoroughly royal in the decadent sense of the word. He has his amours, his noblesse oblige, and a sense of humor that fits very well with the American conception of prince-lings on continuous leave. Alan Mowbray as Josef, the valet, is a thoroughly snobbish servant of the more malignant variety. The burden of the comedy rests on him and he carries off his part very well...
Time set all this right, but one night, years later. Mr. Gandhi who wished to sit up with his sick father, was persuaded by Mrs. Gandhi to come to bed. The remorse of the Mahatma, when a servant knocked on the bedroom door and announced his father's death, prostrated him for two days. Not until Mrs. Gandhi passed middle age could he regard her as an intellectual helpmate...
...presentation of the portrait, would be embarrassing, but fortunately for my composure I cannot leave Washington. I feel very deeply the great honor you do me . . . which seems to make the culmination of my life and to leave me to say, 'and now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace...