Word: servants
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Peering down the Johnson road, James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois discerned the same lurking bogey. Solemnly he recalled that seizure of factories and industrial unrest had preceded the rise of Fascist and Nazi dictators. "Hear your humble servant!'' warned courtly Senator "Jim Ham." "In every hour and condition such as now surrounds this our Government there awaits another Hitler and there lurks in the shadows another Mussolini...
...Archbishop . . . and he became more priestly than the priests, he ostentatiously and offensively adopted an ascetic manner of life, he openly abandoned every policy that he had heretofore supported; he affirmed immediately that there was a higher order than that which our King, and he as the King's servant, had for so many years striven to establish; and that--God knows why--the two orders were incompatible...
...Congress of Religious Liberals held at Copenhagen. They were received as honored guests in America, England, Czechoslovakia, where they are in touch with the Czech National Church, and in other parts of the continent. In Denmark the Archbishop was personally welcomed by the King. This vigorous, indomitable, and patient servant of all good things in the Philippine Islands, and the beloved Archbishop of a large group of devoted people, surely is not only worthy of the affection in which he is widely held, but I submit that he is also worthy of respectful mention by the Editor of TIME...
Tituba, a Negro servant (Madame Sul-Te-Wan), gets the Massachusetts housewives thinking about witches when she tells of devil dances she has witnessed in the jungle. Her tales excite a nervous child, Ann (Bonita Granville). who is punished for having a stolen book on witches. Ann gets even with Tituba by pretending to be bewitched. Then Ann's mother testifies that Tituba bewitched her too. Soon the folk begin to find the charge of witchcraft handy for paying off grudges. Once roaring on its way, the hysteria veers round to Barbara when she temerously defends an accused person...
...long. "My Chief took me in hand and for three years or so I loathed him. He had to break me in, and I knew nothing." He lived with his family, but often had the house to himself when they were away in the Hills; he had his own servant, his own rig, all that went with it. "Till I was in my 24th year, I no more dreamed of dressing myself than I did of shutting an inner door. . . . And-luxury of which I dream still-I was shaved before I was awake!" Even when he dined alone...