Word: servante
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Because of his intrigues and his intolerance, he lost most of his friends; the only people outside his family whose affections he kept were Lenchen Demuth, the Marxes' lifelong, devoted servant (who could handle Marx even in his blackest moods) and Friedrich Engels, whom one acquaintance described as "the little Pomeranian." Engels, first with his father's money, then with his own profits as a textile manufacturer, paid Marx's bills. (In a letter to Engels Marx wrote: "I have worked out a sure scheme for getting some money out of your...
...royal palace with lines of two-headed stone bulls. Among the bulls the diggers found the long-sought key: 30 stones with parallel inscriptions in Hittite hieroglyphics and early Phoenician, a translatable Semitic language. The first words the ancient language spoke to modern scholars (self-praise by King Asitawandas, servant of Baal) were not particularly interesting, but the hieroglyphic code was broken. Scholars were sure that other inscriptions, now readable, would tell them the story of the Sons of Heth, who fought with Egyptians and Mesopotamians when the world was younger...
...size is Lyons' style. Lyons provides everything from buns to banquets (for thousands), with an atmosphere of elegance, and at low prices. The term "nippy", with which Lyons tagged its waitresses after a sprucing-up campaign in 1925, has become a British household word for an efficient, pleasant servant...
...said Chafee, he preferred to call it the "promotion of hatred," and he read a few samples from the Russian press. It had called the New York Times's Brooks Atkinson "a mercenary bandit, not fit to whip," and the Herald Tribune's Walter Lippmann a "faithful servant of monopolistic circles...
...Rascal. Feng (rhymes with rung) was born a peasant, entered the Imperial Chinese Army in his teens, was promoted to regimental commander; in 1911, he took part in the coup against the Manchu dynasty. He became a Methodist. He also became the servant of a succession of warlords, to each of whom he proclaimed his loyalty with tears streaming down his cheeks; when a more powerful rival appeared, Feng transferred his tears and loyalties to him. In 1923, Warlord Tsao Kun captured China's government and made Feng a full marshal. Once, when Feng visited his boss...