Word: servant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fragile enough is Molnar's fantasy of a swaggering, restless, ill-tempered barker (Burgess Meredith) who loves an inarticulate servant girl (Ingrid Bergman), marries her, beats her, commits a crime for the sake of the child she is bearing him, dies, is tried in Heaven, sent to Hell for 16 years, then allowed to return to Earth for a day to try to commit a good deed. The play's appeal lies partly in its letting the audience understand perfectly someone who never understands himself at all -who is bad because he is afraid to be good...
...prickly pears at a sitting. But he became gradually civilized as he learned to speak and understand English. He showed himself polite, obedient, fond of children, a devoted nurse. In the fields he was a prodigious worker, and Farmer Smith eventually came to regard him as his best servant. Lucas told Smith some of his experiences among the baboons, explained the big scar on his head as the mark of a kick delivered by an ostrich whose nest he was raiding. His origin remained in doubt, but it was remembered that a native woman had lost a child years before...
...sentencing of 75 revolters to penal servitude, the imprisonment of 23, the internment of 1,841. Later, in London, the best known of the Easter Week conspirators, Sir Roger Casement, died on the gallows, despite the pleas of Pope Benedict XV and the U. S. Senate. British civil servant turned Irish patriot, Sir Roger had been arrested on the Irish coast only a few hours after landing from a German submarine. His trial was in the glorious tradition; before a British judge and jury he argued Ireland's case against England fully as eloquently as had young Robert Emmet...
Last week, for the 95th anniversary of the Old Master's birth, the National Chiropractic Journal printed a rib-tickling paean, showing that Founder Palmer was no mere kneader of vertebrae, but a true philosopher, "servant of the cosmic mind." Said Chiropractor C. Sterling Cooley of Tulsa, Okla.: "When he gave an adjustment, his manner was much like that of a composer playing one of his own compositions...
...town, Arezzo, where he was born on Good Friday of the year Columbus sighted America. (Good Friday, as his enemies loved to remind the world, was the legendary birthday of the Antichrist.) Mature and restive at 15, he quit home. He worked, during the next few years, as a servant in Rome, a street singer, a hostler in Bologna, a moneylender's agent, tax collector, mule driver, hangman's assistant, miller, courier, pimp, mountebank, swindler, galley slave. At 24 he got into the service of Agostino Chigi, one of Rome's biggest business men. He had already...