Word: servante
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...could be. But that is the kind of confidence, amounting to a fervent faith, that the U.S. has learned to place in Bernie Baruch, multimillionaire stock speculator, brilliant generalissimo of the World War I Industries Board, adviser to five Presidents, and a private citizen who has been a public servant for a quarter of a century...
...jochu, the pretty servant girl, sat beside him as he ate, remembered how much sugar he liked in his coffee, and pattered into his room in the morning before he was dressed. She had never been kissed. Patric grew fond of her, took her walking in quiet lanes, and when he left gave her an expensive copy of Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, translated into Japanese. "I wanted her never to forget the first man and perhaps the last who kissed her." That idyllic interlude was soon lost in the travels in industrial Japan, Korea, Occupied China, in questionings...
...later patrol Major Ferguson wiped out four Japs, his servant Peter Dorren seven. They came into a village at dawn and saw four men sitting around a fire as though playing bridge. The Major walked over and said hello. When one of them turned, he saw they were Japs. "From that moment," he said, "I lost all fear of the Japanese. There was stark terror in their faces. I fumbled for the pin of my grenade, tossed it into the fire and ducked. Peter's work was more complicated, but as effective...
Both these books are deep-felt, enthusiastic studies of men and machines in battle; both are written by trained, ob servant storytellers. "Flying Officer X" is H. E. Bates, one of Britain's most talented short-story writers (The Poacher, My Uncle Silas). His sketches of life in the R.A.F. are the result of an assignment to Britain's Bomber Command. C. S. Forester (Captain Horatio Hornblower, Riflleman Dodd and The Gun, TIME, March 29), the British Navy's most passionate booster, spent several weeks on a British warship before sitting down to write his story...
...There was Winston Churchill, who "first became visible" to Sheean "in a red bathrobe over bathing trunks; he wore a large, flopping straw hat, and slippers and a cherubic grin." His first words were: "My dear Maxine, you have no idea how easy it is to travel without a servant. I came here all the way from London alone and it was quite simple." Said Maxine: "Winston, how brave of you!" Churchill spent much of his time painting. "In such a society [he] was slightly out of place . . . but he never noticed." Once Churchill smiled at Sheean and lisped that...