Word: handmaiden
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...Mother of God has always been a transcendent inspiration in the world of Art. . . . From the beginning, Christian art has been the handmaiden of the Faith. In the crude and devout symbols of the Catacombs we find the beginnings of that astonishing religious art which flowered so splendidly in the religious consummation of the centuries we call medieval...
...picture in indeed a family affair. Lottie Pickford, absent from the screen for several years, plays devoted handmaiden to her sister, while Allan Forrest, Lottie's husband, portrays the gallant lover who rescues noble Dorothy from the intriguing circle that would marry her off in the approved fashion of historical drama. Mary undertook the play, as she expressed it, to save herself from "being strangled in her own curls." More dramatic than usual, she has several powerful scenes with Clare Eames, who plays her favorite role of Queen Elizabeth with versatile sinuosity, as one born to make history...
...That the emphasis be placed on morality, good conscience, respect for, parents, reverence for age and experience, and that all learning is but the handmaiden of eternal goodness...