Word: servant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tried having a citizens' play jury, but had to disband it for its failure to find dirt. The evident lack of heart in the police procedure against The Captive, Sex and The Virgin Man, was doubtless due to the fact that the public censor is also a public servant requiring votes to hold office. Nevertheless, pending the hearings on these three plays, the management of a "homosexual comedy drama" called The Drag, after being barred in Bayonne, N. J., last week disbanded its cast of 62 players, not daring to enter New York City. That was some comfort...
...foggy evening in 1900, a tough barge rat from Haverstraw, N. Y., marvels, as always, at the changing masses of Manhattan's skyline seen from the North River. "Gee," he says. "Gee!" He can neither read nor write. He is 16; name, John Breen; parents, a once-pretty Irish servant and someone other than the grimy bargee she calls their "old man." Entering the East River, in thickening fog and greasy tide-rips, the barge is rammed. Loaded with bricks ("the city's red corpuscles") it plunges under. John Breen struggles out of the greenish-black water to a Manhattan...
...themselves for renovation. One wealthy man, Gilbert Van Horn, less paunchy than most, discovers he is John Breen's father. John finds out too but neither says anything. Van Horn makes John his ward and pays his way through Columbia. John wants to be, and becomes, an engineer, a servant of his first mistress, the city...
That most faithful servant of education, the Boston Transcript, last week published its annual survey of 86 colleges and universities whose condition may be safely regarded as typical of all the 780 institutions of higher learning in the U. S. It was with something between pride and bewilderment that the Transcript had to report...
Alabama. Governor-elect Bibb Graves shares the office of Governor William W. Brandon, famed poker player with a faithful Negro servant (TIME, Dec. 6), for the 20 days preceding the inauguration on Jan. 17. They both wish to watch the legislature's special session. Never before has Alabama had sharing Governors...