Word: servant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...joined the Army in 1917, served through World War I in a San Francisco Army office. In 1922 he got a job as a state deputy corporation commissioner; it seemed that he might jog on through life as an inconspicuous public servant. But California's Governor Friend Richardson, impressed by his thoroughness, appointed him to the Superior Court bench. In twelve years as a judge his homely virtues and his obvious distress at civic corruption attracted the interest of Los Angeles reformers...
...dramatic monologues and dialogues Frost never improved on these early works. One of them, "The Generations of Men," is as sad and lovely an American romance as anything of Hawthorne's; two others, "A Servant to Servants" and "Home Burial," are as torturing records of the life of men with women as New England could provide. Frost went back to farming near Franconia, N.H., and in 1924 won his first Pulitzer Prize with New Hampshire. After that the sturdy, deliberate man with the tousled head and bright blue eyes became a public figure...
...hours by train, another half-hour by bus, and then a last 20 minutes on the bike. Twenty-nine bald and bewigged girls, taking van Rooijen's treatments, have sought out household jobs in Een. As a result Een, unlike the rest of Holland, has no servant shortage...
...Change. It would be hard to imagine a greater contrast between two men. When big, bald Louis Johnson two months ago stepped into James Forrestal's place, control of the nation's second biggest office passed from a wiry, introverted, unpolitical public servant to a 202 lb., hearty, hail-fellow man of action who had been a politician for most of his adult life. By last week the change of command and the change in methods that went with it had sent uneasy rumors and angry charges up & down the 163 miles of corridors in the Pentagon, where...
Anyone looking at Alexander Foote a second time might remember him, but the chances are he wouldn't be looked at twice. A quiet chap of 44, about 5 ft. 9 in., with thinning, mouse-colored hair, he looks like the British civil servant he is; he works for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries now. But back in the '30s, he was a disgruntled salesman who had swallowed communism hook, line & sinker...