Word: handmaiden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pundit, not only a writer and interpreter but also a molder, a creator of news. He is heir to the dream of the late, great Victor Fremont Lawson, builder of the Chicago Daily News, who 30 years ago conceived a worldwide foreign service which was to be "the handmaiden of state craft." Men who worked abroad for Journalist Lawson had to be diplomatists as well as reporters. They were to aid in interpreting countries one to the other, for to Journalist Lawson all nations needed only to be known to be beloved. Properly to interpret a nation it might...
...Business, by tradition strangers, have of recent years had their names linked by trade-boosters seeking to ennoble Business by a marriage above its esthetic station. Art's lovers, proud of their mistress and fearful lest she be debased as a handmaiden, have often denied the rumors of intimacy, assailed the Business motives...
...Three more are, maliciously, "ideal"-the wives of Swinburne, de Goncourt, and Henry James (he, of course, runs away from his on the first day of the honeymoon). But the "real" outclass the "ideal" in artistic creation, and prove "the skittish muse of intimate biography," Clio's charming handmaiden...
...Coolidge, button-punching at the White House, flooded the feast with light. President Darwin Pearl Kingsley of the New York Life Insurance Co. made the opening address, which was broadcast to 2,300,000 policy holders whose insurance totals $6,800,000,000. Said he: "Beauty is the natural handmaiden of power and power is the dominant note in modern American architecture. Here, as in cathedral architecture, power fails without beauty and beauty works through her allies, color, mass and symmetry...
...Babyon affianced her flashing black beauty and fabulous fortune to her Cousin Jamie. But "she was a black woman on a red ground ... a sight he should have seen last year, on his tour, not now, home in safe sunny England." Terrified, he ran off with Menella, fair-haired handmaiden in "rose linen sprigged with small corn flowers and carnations." They swore to be true "till death us do part." Hariot's death, by her own jealous hand, did part them, and haunt them, till Jamie rode to his own frenzied death, and thus joined the siren...