Word: servants
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TIME: There was an earlier incident involving the beating to death of a servant...
DIED. OVETA CULP HOBBY, 90, public servant and newspaper executive; in Houston. No job was too big for the "Little Colonel," who in 1941 rose from co-managing the Houston Post to commanding the Women's Army Corps. She was appointed the nation's first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in 1953; her resignation two years later prompted Treasury Secretary George Humphrey to gasp, "What? The best man in the Cabinet...
...Scheherazade routine is the jealous, obsessively hair-brushing Lavinia (Taylor Fry), whose machinations would fit right into "90210: The Elementary School Years," Sara meets Lavinia's jealousy with innocent incomprehension. Nor can she understand why the students why the students aren't allowed to talk to the Black servant girl, Becky (Vanessa Lee Chester). Sara promptly sets out to befriend Becky, despite the house taboo...
Seventeenth century Spain was notorious for the parsimony of its common diet: bread, beans, onions, a scrap of lamb or fish sometimes, and garlic, garlic, garlic. It was to French or Italian cooking what the crabby-looking servant girl grinding aioli in Diego Velazquez's Kitchen Scene with Christ in the House of Martha and Mary was to the sumptuous nudes of Titian or Veronese. A modern palate would recoil at the eggs slowly frying, or rather poaching, in oil on top of a clay stove in Velazquez's An Old Woman Cooking Eggs. But what an amazing...
...used to be proud of being a career civil servant; then I became apologetic; now I'm just plain scared. Even though the U.S. has freer elections, less corruption and lower taxes than almost any other country on earth, there are a shocking number of Americans who believe that blowing up a federal building is a blow for freedom. The antigovernment mood of this country has gone...