Word: dien
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...personal interviews." Within, an absorbed, absentminded, gracious, tireless, cheerful individual carries on his work, with the calm open-mindedness of a scientist, from one day to the next of his 79th year. Well might his motto be the one which is the heritage of the Princes of Wales-"Ich dien" (I serve...
...power of his oratory is his most deadly weapon; his lips form revolutionary metaphors and epigrams and hurl them upon his audience until it becomes intoxicated with his magic; his voice, aided by gestures from "a windmill of arms and legs," is like that of a tragédien, rising from the soft strains of pathos to the roar of dramatic agony. Some have called him "the thunderer of the Revolution," others, "a demagogue, pure and simple...
Such, one conceives, were the ideals of Franklin--an American whom Dr. Eliot resembles in more ways than one--and had either one of these resplendent citizens adopted a personal motto what better one than the famous "Ich dien" of German origin? Today, even at ninety, Dr. Eliot lives to serve, as of yore. Even as of yore, too, he does serve, knowing whereof he speaks, rich in information, constructive in suggestion, tireless in new vision. By right of service proved he belongs to the public whom he leads, even as he is the most priceless living possession of Harvard...