Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...palatial 3O4-ft. steam yacht Liberty was built in 1908 by the late eccentric Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who was such a slave-driver that his retinue of male secretaries called their floating home the Liberty, Ha Ha. The late Courtenay Charles Evan Morgan Viscount Tredegar, wealthy coal man, bought the yacht from Pulitzer, made it a navigating hospital. The third owner, the late Fanny Lucy Radmall Lady Houston, wife of the Houston shiplines director, hung a huge electric sign, DOWN WITH MACDONALD THE TRAITOR, in the rigging, sailed the English coast. Last week the old Liberty was sold for scrap...
...display of carnage in the first issue shows a hypnotized man with his lips pierced with pins, kosher beef being slaughtered, a bloody nose-bobbing operation. Most of the rest of the magazine is chiefly suitable for decorating the walls of a college fraternity house-layouts "unmasking" the white slave trade, why Toms peep and at what, finally a section devoted to colored illustrations of off-color jokes and "French art studies...
...exploding boilers. The account of Mother Duchesne's work-which did not come to an end until 1852-occupies half of Mother Callan's book. It is full of homely detail: the French nuns' first encounter with corn bread; Mother Duchesne's purchase of a slave, Rachel, from her bishop "as a favor" when he left for France, later reselling her to help pay for a dormitory...
...fact, more valuable than the preaching is the practice. In research, in education, and in diffusion of culture, Harvard tries to be the leader, and never satisfied with the present, strives to perfect its technique and reach the ultimate best. In handling its employees, it is a slave to other corporations practices...
...then, students are to be seen walking around the Yard with delicate little sprippings, Widener's steps are surely to game, for in 100 trips a year to the library, a student is very likely to become a slave again, to architecture...