Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...illness in order to extract gifts from those who wished to be remembered in his will, has been a staple of the Theatre Guild both in Manhattan and on the road. The Guild now brings it back to Manhattan, excellently played by a cast including Earle Larimore as the servant Mosca who outfoxed his bedridden master...
...have the picture placed where I understand it is to be, in your magnificent hall--worthy of the noble corps of professors and instructors who teach there--seems to mark the culmination of my life and leaves me ready to say, 'Now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace...
...mind's eye," he cried, "is that magnificent painting of the scene in which the sovereign lies dying and his servant exclaims, 'Never again will I serve a King whom the worms...
...term out of an elementary textbook by the Alvord Professor of Natural Religion. Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, endowments for economic research were unnecessary; but in the second decade of the twentieth century it was evident that the Department of Economics was literally in the position of the servant expected to produce his tale of bricks without any substantial supply of straw...
...serious-minded young governess has a good but disagreeable job with a horribly inconsiderate rich family, who treat her like a servant, search her room when anything: is missing. The English tutor never speaks to her in the daytime, but tries to get into her room every night. When everything has gone hopelessly wrong, one night she leaves the door ajar...