Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hire workers." Secretary Hopkins revived a report current in January but then disavowed by him: that among his major assignments is to do the job left undone by Secretary of Labor Perkins-get A. F. of L. and C.I.O. to bury the hatchet. "Business," said Business' new servant, "finds it difficult to progress in face of a divided labor front...
...will time and again be seized upon by a minority element as the sign that the Government is on the run. We will have to expect some such bad manners, but we will take them in our stride because that is part of the job of being a public servant...
...Holiness Pius XI, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Summus Pontifex, 261st Bishop of Rome, Servant of the Servants of God, Head of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church for 17 years and four days. He was dying. Ill as well as aged (81), he had refused to take to his bed till three days before, stricken by cardiac asthma and kidney disturbances. A sturdy patient, he had told his physician that "the Pope must not stay in bed. The Pope must be Pope." Mindful of Leo XIII, who lay 20 days a-dying, he had said: "I will die sulla...
...unction and His most loving mercy may the Lord pardon thee whatever thou hast sinned by sight." The dying man's ears, nose, mouth, hands, feet by holy unction were shrived. With the others' low voices joining in the responses, Monsignor de Romanis prayed: "Make safe Thy servant, my God, who trusts in Thee. Send him, 0 Lord, help from Thy holy place, and defend him out of Zion...
Only witness to the Don's descent into Hell was his scalawag servant, Leporello, word was no more trustworthy than his master's. Doña Ana, her suitor Don Ottavio and Leporello set off for Juan's country home, to tell Juan's father of his son's strange death. On the way Leporello disappears. Doña Ana suspects him of having invented the whole story. Sure enough, first Leporello, then Juan himself reappears. It seems that Juan had merely had a bad case of nettle rash, which marred his handsome face...