Word: servant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent...
...other side of every so-called "issue" of his time. But he does not speak out. And it may be significant that most of the newsgatherers upon whose help he plans to rely in lieu of an active personal campaign are less and less impressed with him as a servant of the people, but more and more as a big, self-sufficient boy who, if given the whole government to run, would no doubt run it efficiently but insist upon running it-like a new train-all by himself...
Included among recent additions to the Everyman's Library (E. P. Dutton and Co., New York, 1928), are W. Harrison Ainsworth's famous novel of the perfect servant. The Admirable Crichton, lately immortalized by the movies: The Life and Letters of John Keats edited by Lord Boughton: The Brothers Karamazov (2 vols.) Thedor Dostoevsky, generally conceded a place as one of the greatest works of the age: The Life of Jesus by Ernest Renan...
There are a number of reasons why this greying ramrod of a public servant has waked up, a popular one being that his prosecution of the oil gangsters excited the admiration of potent political patronesses, such as Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, president of the Women's National Democratic Club, who in turn have taught Senator Walsh to appreciate himself. Another theory is that, after his wife died in 1917 towards the end of his first term in the Senate, he turned to politics with fresh concentration as other bereaved men will turn to business, pleasure or a new wife...
...then Michigan game & fish warden, then commissioner of railroads, then regent of the University of Michigan. What made Michiganders admire him much was his great feat as a mining engineer-the discovery of the Moose Mountain iron range in Canada. Brawny, brainy, he made a good public servant-Georgia's claim to Chase Salmon Osborn is that he usually winters near Albany, Ga., where his estate is known as " 'Possum Poke on 'Possum Lane." Had any Michigan newspaper desired to reclaim "one of the most prolific writers in this country" as a Michigander, it would only have...