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Senator Moran ignored the possibility that Mr. Fuller might frame the checks. Apparently he wished Mr. Fuller to burn them. Rarely, if ever before, had a public servant been blamed for keeping his salary...
...they spoiled? . . . When they are ill, they have to go to hospital, to get the care that an ordinary Englishwoman . . . would get from her servant as a matter of course. . . . There are many towns in America without one single, solitary servant, towns where all the women have to do their own housework, cooking, most of the washing, and usually the gardening...
...ordinary American is not rich. . . . Salary or income may be larger than that of his opposite in England, but his expenses are bigger; and that is why, were he living in England, his wife could have one servant, possibly two of them. . . . Certainly her children are a help to her very soon. . . . By the time he [an American boy] is seven years old he is a handy man in the house, with chores to do, which he really does. Then take the little girls. . . . At the age when her little English cousin is having her hands washed...
...Strange Case of Lena Smith. A series of patient, beautifully photographed and slightly academic incidents record the suffering which life lays bit by bit upon Esther Ralston, a Viennese servant-girl. It isn't always clear why she should bear so much-the loss of her child, the concealment of her marriage, the insults of the Chief of the Bureau of Morals, in whose kitchen she works, but she is a meek one-until the last, that is. Although he has told his story too carefully, perhaps, and dedicated it too consciously to the majesty of suffering, Josef...
Volpone and Mosca were played with skill by Claude Rains and Earl Larimore. In his nightgown, his cracked and reedy voice gleeful with deception, Volpone remained to the end a riddle. After the Fox, in planned guise of death, has signed away his coffersful to his servant, Mosca throws into his teeth the question: "Who are you?", and there is no real answer. Volpone is no longer Volpone, for Volpone made a will and died. But he never was anyone; even to Johnson he never was more real than the idea of greed...