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...Edna-Ferberish servant-girl is torn between her love for her fiancé and the flattering dependence of her Jewish "family...
Early in the Depression, dapper, white-mustached Clarence Hungerford Mackay, board chairman of Postal Telegraph & Cable Corp., and his wife, who was Opera Singer Anna Case, closed their 50-servant "Harbor Hill" mansion on Long Island, ousted their superintendent from his snug, white lodge on the grounds, moved into the lodge. Last week the Mackays prepared to move back to "Harbor Hill." For the present they will open only the south side of the mansion, keep a skeleton staff...
...degree in her imperial household. If her enraged whist partner threw his cards at her feet, she would merely call the onlookers to witness that she had played her hand right. Once when she had an urgent letter to send and all her bell-pealing brought no servant, she found the lackeys busy playing cards, offered to take one of the men's hands while he went out to post the letter. She loved to laugh, and her guffaw was famous. But nothing suggestive ever roused it: only something very innocent or something very obscene...
...Austen has also written the foreword, which states the significance of the Crown today, and as a former member of H. M. Government he must certainly speak for a large and representative body of British opinion. "The King at home or abroad is ever first and foremost the servant of the State," says Sir Austen, and his selection of photographs exhibits the King, his consort, and the royal family, performing the duties incumbent upon them in peace and in war. These duties, if Sir Austen's anthology gave the whole story, would seem to be wholly public, and pity would...
Your account shows George V not merely the force for union but the faithful servant of his people. He has endured, along with them, a quarter of a century that was the most crucial test of a nation's and a king's character...