Word: handmaiden
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...Chief handmaiden to such power is big politics. In the present instance, our chief executive had the ill fortune to be baptized into an order that believed in playing politics for keeps, an order that could lead normally honest men to place personal power, the conceit to do as one pleases, above public interest. Nero, the fiddler while Rome burned, began as a good ruler...
...Specific details of the new control plan required a few more days for working out, but the long-talked-about probability had finally become a reality. Price and wage controls were on the way back again. Other Government controls were on the horizon. One was rationing, often the handmaiden of price and wage controls. Wilson thought that could be postponed indefinitely, perhaps even avoided. To the Senate Small Business committee he said: "If America can produce as I think it can produce, we can put off that evil...
...Cocteau's up-to-date mythology, death's handmaiden rides in a Rolls-Royce, flanked by grim motorcyclists, and communicates with Orpheus by shortwave radio. Her immediate superiors in the beyond-a bombed-out no man's land between the living and the dead-are a trio of business-suited bureaucrats in a chain of command that goes on into infinity. The role of the avenging Bacchantes, who tore Orpheus apart in the ancient myth, is now taken by a seedy bunch of envious poets who gather in what looks like Paris' Café de Flore...
Though the narrators' hints alert the audience to distrust Eve, the early sequences make her wholly sympathetic. She seems "a lamb loose in our big stone jungle," humble, gracious, utterly devoted to the tempestuous big star (Bette Davis) who adopts her as a secretary-handmaiden. Subtly at first, then with fine crescendo effect, Mankiewicz reveals her as an ambitious fanatic who stops at nothing-deceit, betrayal, assignation, blackmail-to knife...
...doctors, famed Physiologist Andrew Conway Ivy, who is also vice president of the University of Illinois, sounded the keynote. Said he: "Medicine is the handmaiden of science and religion. Religious and spiritual realms overlap more with the healing arts and sciences than in anything else man does. Try as we might to separate them, we can't do it, because that is the way we are built...