Word: servante
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When Lyuh Woon Heung was seven, he watched his father, a yang ban (big landowner), beat a servant to death-a privilege that was legal in Korea until 1908. Said Lyuh later: "I determined then that when I became a man, I would destroy the yang ban class...
Among scores of rotting and deserted New England summer palaces whose owners have decided that taxes and the servant problem were too much for them, one in the Massachusetts hills has achieved a final use which places it in a position unique on this continent. "Tanglewood," the Berkshire estate where Nathaniel Hawthorne reputedly wrote several of his major works, has become the summer home of more than four hundred music students from all over the world, who combine a summer of study under topnotch instructors with the chance to hear a baker's dozen of concerts by the Boston Symphony...
...kingdom of heaven is as a man traveling into a jar country, "who called his own servants. . . . And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one. . . . After a long time the lord of those servants cometh. . . . And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents. . . . He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord . . . behold, I have gained two other talents. . . . His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant. . . . He which had received the one talent came and said, Lord . . . I was afraid, and went...
...Allan Octavian Hume, a British theosophist and retired civil servant, founded the Congress in 1885. He persuaded the Viceroy, Lord Dufferin, that the best way to combat growing unrest in the villages was to let Indian leaders discuss political development...
...when the spirits she produces mechanically for her seances' begin to appear unasked. The opera in Menotti's hands and those of the Ballet Society is far more than the usual Metropolitan parade of dummies with voices; Menotti probes far into the characters of the degenerate medium, her mute servant and kind daughter, and the pathetic customers who make the seance an unforgettable scene...