Word: servante
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...Karsh's sitters were in a hurry. Foreign Minister Molotov ("notably calm himself, he hates to see other people get excited") posed for 22 minutes. Former Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes sat statuesquely for 45 minutes before intoning: "And now, lettest thou thy servant depart in peace." When Britain's wartime bomber chief, Lord Portal, appeared direct from the barber's chair, Karsh suggested they wait two weeks because a new haircut "automatically makes a photograph unfit for publication...
...discontent with oldtime governors and bosses who give lip service to the ideals of the revolution, political support to the regime in Mexico City, but rule their own states for themselves and their relatives. The rise of a new type of governor interested in being a good public servant, in pushing good roads and building schools, has compounded the impatience...
...show, the Whist Club imported Al Sobel of New York, the American Contract Bridge League's national tournament director. At headquarters in the Royal York Hotel, Director Sobel accepted 305 entrants. But he balked on the 306th. No. 306 was Leon Beard, 43, a Trinidad civil servant studying surveying at the University of Toronto. Reason for rejection: Leon Beard is a Negro...
...Earl of Halifax, who often talked of turning farmer after he was through being Ambassador to the U.S., was getting closer to the earth. The towering lord of Hickleton Hall in Yorkshire was moved by servant trouble and householder's headache to sell the hulking heap, plus a few of his many lordly acres, to an Anglican sisterhood (Order of the Holy Paraclete). The sisters planned to use it for a school building, and m'lord planned to move into the stable...
...sources of income of every public servant would make as interesting reading as do those of officers and directors...