Word: servante
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That craftsmanly joy in painting kept him working to the end, propped up in a wheelchair with a brush strapped to his arthritic fingers. Last week Manhattan gallerygoers could see the result of those last pain-racked hours: healthy, big-hipped servant girls looking as flushed and happy as if they had just stepped out of a steam bath...
...servant, tears in his eyes, handed over the suitcase, his mistress inquired: "Ricardo, are you sure my silk pajamas are there? Prison is a beastly place and I don't want to lose my femininity...
...last week, the Alumni Bulletin printed some reflections of Philosopher George Santayana. "The spirit of Harvard . . . seems to one of my generation to be changed, in the sense that it has carried out completely the ideal of President [Charles William] Eliot, *to make it an integral part, and a servant of the contemporary world. But in my time there still stirred ... a certain speculative and moral freedom. We still dared to prefer the end of life, realizable in every free and happy moment, to the means of keeping the world going faster and faster in an unknown direction. Of course...
...Bishop Ransom's appraisal of his own busy life is tempered with Christian humility. "I cannot say that I have always been a servant of exceptional faithfulness," he writes, "nor can I say that in my role of bishop my decisions have always been unquestionably right. I may perhaps have made some hearts richer, some minds clearer, and inspired some to more noble prompting, and if so, I am indeed happy...
...such a view is not mistaken ... we may perhaps be able more fully to understand why it was that the Saviour of mankind had to be both loved and hated by those to whom He came to reveal the true nature of God. Thus it was that the suffering servant of God was able to pass on to men the knowledge of God, which He Himself possessed, by His suffering...