Word: servant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Convalescent in hospital, Judge Johnson, a public servant whose experience includes school teaching among Indians, declared Widow Simmons irresponsible, crazy, hallucinated. So did U. S. Senator William H. King of Utah, who was surprised to hear that Mrs. Simmons, whom he had never met, would rather have "gotten" him than Judge Johnson for assistance she fancied he had rendered the Utah Copper...
This play, according to cables from Austria, will be presented in Manhattan next month when Max Reinhardt, under management of Gilbert Miller of the Frohman Company (theatrical producers), brings his entire Salzburg Company to the U. S.* Other likely plays: Dante's Death, Love and Intrigue, A Servant of Two Masters...
...that his father's last wish was that when he is 25 years of age, he should come to China as a missionary." Horace Tracy Pitkin, Congregational missionary at Paotingfu, Chili Province, China, said this one noisome summer day in 1901 to his faithful Chinese letter-carrier and general servant, Kuo Lao-man. Pastor Pitkin had some months before sent his wife and only child, Horace Collins Pitkin, then a scrappy three-year-old, back to Mrs. Pitkin's home at Troy, Ohio. His command to Kuo Lao-man was his last message. Next day Chinese Boxers, uprising, slew...
Occidentals asked, "What of the mother, and Baroness Tanaka?" Japanese replied that, even though an O Mekake, or "honorable concubine" may give birth to a child which is recognized as legitimate, she still continues in the status of an humble household servant. By ancient custom the child is removed from its mother's care at birth, and she first sees it again 30 days later, when all the household servants assemble to pay their respects to the new "Little Master...
...sort of poetic justice Premier Tanaka is himself the son of a poor servant woman who had not even the rank of "honorable concubine" in the household of the onetime feudal lord, Mori. The servant's child displayed such unmistakable quickness and power in mind and body that Lord Mori secured him an appointment to the Military School. Thence he ran through the ranks of officers until, in 1915, Lieutenant General Tanaka was Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff...