Word: servante
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Cambridge Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 said last night that the City had lost "a good and devoted public servant." Crane called Lynch "a wonderful citizen and a very unusual one," and recalled that "he never liked to leave Cambridge. Whenever he got as far as East Arlington, he'd be homesick...
...covered the President's face once more with the sheet and in English offered the prayers for the Dying and for the Departed Soul: "May the most clement Virgin Mary, Mother of God, the most loving consoler of the afflicted, commend to her Son the soul of this servant, John . . . Jesus, Mary and Joseph, assist me in my last agony. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, may I sleep and rest in peace in your holy company . . . Grant, O Lord, that while we here lament the departure of Your servant, we may ever remember that we are most certainly to follow...
...written the classic of modern Irish farce (her wonderfully vicarish novel, The Straight and Narrow Path), unaccountably neglects this rule in The First Day of Friday. Good Intentions is there all right (young Michael Duff, the impoverished Protestant squire who wants only to marry his Dulcie and persuade his servant Atracta to cook breakfast on time). So are Sedition and Salvation (respectively Atracta, the mindless mother of fatherless triplets, and her confessor, the insane but otherwise reasonable Father Behan). There is, furthermore, the besotted yardman Tomo who leads a bull into Michael Duff's kitchen for reasons that...
...Skillful Servant. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi does not want somebody else. After 15 highly successful months as Premier, Amir Assadollah Khan Alam was renamed last week to head Iran's Cabinet, promptly got down to business with a two-hour state-of-theunion speech to the newly elected Majlis. To be sure, the Shahanshah remains firmly in command of land reform, foreign affairs, financial matters and other basic policies. But as the Shah's skillful grand vizier, Alam has done more to modernize the Peacock Throne than any other Premier in the nation's history...
...whose arms and legs sort of flap when he runs. Innocent but curious, he bumps into all the calamities of the modern world, from concentration camps to plane crashes. Some of the disasters Voltaire wrote about have remained unchanged: three army divisions get syphilis from raping a certain household servant...