Word: servant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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CYRANO DE BERGERAC - Walter Hampden continues his Rostand revival, alternating with The Servant in the House...
...forgotten as he drives his yacht through the deadly seas. Power, command, cunning, endurance are his in the thunder and torrent. Proudly, happily weary, when dawn breaks upon conquered seas, he descends to the cabins. He would go to his wife. Outside her door he finds his Abyssinian servant, crouching, knife in hand...
...Whom wouldst thou slay? Thy master's friend, perchance? Thy master's wife?" asks Masterson. "Nay," says the servant...
...life may be of great service to the community in public office, after retirement, but from my experience I think it rare that a man who has given all his early life to private affairs makes a good public official. It is very nearly essential that a public servant shall have started when young in public office, and whether he holds public office continually for years or not shall have acquired the faculty not of oratory, but of easy address, and of clear consecutive thinking and statements. This ease of address is rarely acquired late in life...
Verily, verily, I say unto you, the servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent...