Word: servante
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...story concerns one Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant, who travels around Russia buying up the names of "dead souls"-serfs who have died since the last census. Once he has accumulated a large enough roster of these imaginary people, Chichikov intends to raise a huge mortgage on them, invest the money somehow or other and make himself a rich man. It is at once an uproariously funny story and a sulphuric satire on Russian society. Gogol was able to sound the deepest and most secret of men's motives as surehandedly as a peasant pawing up his potato crop...
...Sept. 29, 1949, Republican Styles Bridges of New Hampshire rose up in the Senate and proposed a salary raise from $10,000 to $14,000 for an "outstanding" public servant, Chief Counsel Charles Oliphant of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Two years later, the outstanding Mr. Oliphant resigned under heavy congressional fire in the tax scandals (TIME...
Verena Talbo has always tyrannized her sister Dolly (finely played by Mildred Natwick). But when she tries to cheat her as well, Dolly flees-with a young boy cousin and a tart-tongued servant (well played by Georgia Burke)-to a tree house in a wood. It is not only a revolt against ugly materialism, but an escape from reality. The trio are joined in their tree by a judge; and the quartet sits about, lonely and lost, wishing and dreaming aloud. After some dime-novel hocus-pocus breaks in on their dream world, Dolly goes home to face reality...
...capital, and dies on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. A confession he recorded before his death* is played' back as the commencement address he was to have delivered at his alma mater. In it, he admits to having been "an enemy of my country-and the servant of a foreign power," and urges the graduates to "hold fast to honor...
...shelter. A soldier smartly togged in green hurried over, took a quick look at the curfew pass of Imam Bey, Egypt's political police chief, and snapped a salute. Trusted policemen jumped out of the other cars. Imam Bey rang the bell of the darkened house; a servant told him that Serag el Din was across the street at the elaborate villa of Nahas Pasha, onetime fellah and now the aging, feeble chief of the powerful, corruption-ridden Wafd Party. As Minister of the Interior, Serag el Din had been the power behind Nahas Pasha until Cairo...