Word: servant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Politicians hand out humbug to the voters-but so does lawyer to jury, doctor to patient, actor to audience, salesman to customer, parson to parish. The politician's condition is that, though human and with himself to care for, he is also the public's servant, subject to idealized standards and extraordinary publicity...
Here is the big scene. You have been waiting for Major Powell to face his old servant after sleeping with his wife but, using the one-two punch that can be as effective in a play as in a prize-ring, Author Rideout does more than answer his suspense. The prancing Senegalese is a faithful friend to Israel Dubois; seeing that his friend and the officer have bad blood between them, he starts for the Major with his knife, and Israel Dubois, who has drawn gun to shoot his white master, feels the tug of an ancient loyalty and kills...
...died in 1915, an ungrateful Britain would have remembered him as an Internationalist who once called Germany his "spiritual home," as a public servant strongly suspected of disloyalty, closely akin to treachery...
Approachable, candid, he was a hero to many a cub reporter. He said: "I am a quasi-public servant. I have no more right to refuse an interview to a newspaperman than to a director of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad." To neither newspapermen nor directors did he refuse interviews on the day he took over the N. Y., N. H. & H. in an effort to reduce accidents, deficits. On that day the ringing of a telephone had interrupted his breakfast. And a terror-stricken voice had reported the wrecking of the Bar Harbor Express, the loss...
...Constitution so that the greatest shame which savage, ignorant brains could devise would be placed on the nation's most popular man. . . . The President of Poland is not permitted even to select his valet or his maid, much less his Ministers. No one would think of treating a servant in the infamous manner in which the Constitution handles the President...