Word: servant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suddenly discovered that the owners of the newspapers were the masters, that the editor was only a man who was hired and that the owner of a great newspaper was in a position to exert influence over government affairs. The old function of the editor disappeared. He became the servant of the owner, paid far more, writing far worse and not writing what he sincerely believed...
Undergraduates in the cast are J. M. Brown '23, as Cobby, a negro servant, and Conrad Salinger '23, as Deacon Ikey Myers. Brown was president of the Dramatic Club for the first half-year of 1922-23. He has had parts in many Workshop plays. Salinger has usually played romantic parts in Workshop plays. He was the composer of the music for the Dramatic Club's production of "The Life...
Readers of Stevenson will recall, in "The Master of Ballantrae", the Hindu servant who taught his master to feign death by "swallowing his tongue". The experiment, in that case, was not altogether successful, and the author leaves doubt as to whether the Hindu really remained alive, after two week's burial in the ground, or not. But the trick was founded on an actual oriental superstition, of which many others have likewise appeared to baffle "civilized" doctors. Perhaps later investigators, like this Frenchman, will not only explain them by natural laws rather than supernatural, but also apply them usefully...
...creature with the required grace; Anna Laying as her sentimental mother borders upon burlesque; Jackson, played by Mark Kent, is himself, no less; Edward Darney, Houston Richards, and Miss Viola Roach perform their parts well; while Ralph Remley again shows himself a master of make-up as the Japanese servant...
...like Walter Hines Page, letters of advice to young men who asked for it. But some of the best are purely personal letters. To "Elizabeth" Lane directed messages which give a slant at the man from a unique angle. We find this hard-headed two-fisted public servant a poet at heart, rising above the prosaic environment he regretted...