Word: servante
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...Majesty, Our Servant. The pressure on the President was tremendous. His people at home, the men of his armies and fleets thought that peace had all but come. Some of his most trusted advisers argued that the Japanese condition would mean little in practice-certainly not enough to justify a postponement of peace. Chiang Kai-shek presumably let him know that China sided with him against any concession to the Emperor. Britain's Attlee passed the buck. Stalin's views, if any, were known only to Truman...
...only remains for me to express to the British people, for whom I have acted in these perilous years, my profound gratitude for the unflinching and unswerving support which they have given me during my task and for the many expressions of kindness which they have shown toward their servant...
...Independence, Bess Truman, like millions of other U.S. women, faced a servant problem. Vietta Garr, Negro cook who had worked 16 years for the Trumans, is now back of the counter in a Kansas City drugstore. Surveying her array of mechanical aids to soda-jerking, Vietta confessed that she is dubious about returning to what will be the summer White House: "I'm sort of on the outs with the cooking. I'm fountain manager now, and you don't give up that kind of a job without thinking it over. I think an awful...
...stepped an austere, black-clad man. On his head was a black bowler. In one hand he held a tightly rolled umbrella. Under one arm he hugged a black G.R. (a dispatch case with a George Rex imprint). At the first sight since 1940 of a typical London civil servant, the crowd burst spontaneously into There'll Always Be An England...
...night of Jan. 1, 1753, Elizabeth Canning, 18, a shy, yellow-haired London servant girl, said good night to her aunt at the foot of Houndsditch Road and set out for the home of her master, an elderly carpenter who lived near Bedlam Hospital. She was dressed in her holiday best, a purple gown shot with yellow, black quilted petticoat, blue stockings with red clocks, her waist was girded by a pair of ten-shilling stays. No one who knew her ever saw her in that costume again...