Word: servante
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...perhaps as Premier. But he clearly meant to guide the Chinese people away from their reliance on one-man leadership. Said he: "Whoever is President I will support with all my heart and all my strength. I will prove to the people that I am a loyal public servant...
...three participants in the second piece were all good. John Mannick was resonant as the slider, Elcanor Milliard good-looking and as convincing as possible as Dynamene, and Patricia Troxell very amusing in the part of the alternately keening and complaining servant...
...wrote, more than 300 years ago, a Lancashire merchant named Gerard Ma-lynes, faithful servant to Elizabeth of England and one of Britain's earliest economic writers. Two centuries after Ma-lynes this became the bright gospel of "Free Trade," which seemed to promise to all men the freedom of the ocean, the tolerance of the high road and the fraternity of the market place. Of late decades, the promise has dimmed. Last week ended, somewhat dismally, a revival meeting of the once stirring gospel...
...four-hand piano version of Rachmaninoff's long-forgotten first symphony was found in Moscow two years ago; Soviet scholars, looking farther, uncovered orchestral parts in Leningrad. (The Russians, who once scorned Rachmaninoff as "the servant and tool of the worst enemies of the proletariat" because he left Russia after the revolution, now honor him as one of Mother Russia...
After Czechoslovakia became a nation, he entered his father's government, first as a civil servant (secretary to then Foreign Minister Eduard Benes), later as a diplomat. His post was London, where he was enormously popular. In a crowd he sparkled, but sometimes among small groups and after a few drinks he became deeply, almost tearfully melancholy. Near war's close someone asked Jan Masaryk what his postwar plans were. Said he simply: "I want to go home...