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...usual line of business was a case brought to the Bureau recently involving a serving maid and a five dollar bottle of whiskey. The girl worked for a family in Newton. Around Christmas time she asked her employer for a bottle of grade-A whiskey to send to her folks for a present...
...serving maid sought refuge in the Bureau, settled the case with an exchange of $2.00 for the umbrella, the house-coat, and the slippers...
...maid she must have packed...
...home is in Brookline, a district of Pittsburgh. It is a square, plain, seven-room, red brick house which he built 23 years ago, still occupies with his wife and a Negro maid named Orpah. The Murray living room is decorated with oil paintings selected by Mrs. Murray. Her husband's favorite is a seascape. Says Mr. Murray approvingly: "The missus has a very good eye for such things." A onetime star outside-left on soccer teams, Murray's only distraction from labor labors now is at tending prize fights...
...sons does creditably in the Navy and both daughters do war work, but John, Gordon's eldest, is an uncompromising pacifist, and Minna, the maid, is German. On those counts and because his sermons are earnestly gentle rather than militant, Gordon suffers a good deal: cuts in the street, a dwindled congregation, anonymous letters, a stone through his study window. Minna commits suicide. John dies, of pneumonia, in prison...