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...Steward and Griffing are both missionaries and are having fine contacts with Chinese boys, helping them to be decent and manly and are at the same time tackling one of the great problems of China, the improvement of her agriculture and the alleviation of her poverty...
Kossuth, a Protestant, was educated at the Calvinist college of Sarospatlak and at the Budapest University. Aged 19, he became steward to the Countess Sapáry, a position which he subsequently lost owing to a quarrel with that good lady, who vindictively charged him with stealing money to pay his gambling debts. Soon after this he became the representative of Count Hungárdy at the National Diet in Pressburg (dissolved...
...gradual awakening of the various characters to their destination. They are a most miscellaneous assembly-a drunken youth, a clergyman, Mrs. Cleveden Banks with all the careless vices of wealthy indolence, a business man with all the offensive manner of success, a pair of lovers, a charwoman, a steward...
When the Yale Club was called last night, however, it was learned that only a few small pieces remain of all the glorious wreckage. The steward sadly declared that Yale enthusiasts had been breaking off splinters for souvenire throughout the day, and that he expected the last bit to be gone before the Eli invaders have desired Boston...
Baron Renfrew, alias Great Steward of Scotland, Lord of the Isles, Earl of Carrick, Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Prince of Wales, arrived at Quebec incognito en route for the "E. P." (Edward, Prince) ranch in northern Alberta...