Word: servante
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...rupees-Bearers. A bearer is a personal servant. You've got to have one. He gets your laundry done and takes your telegrams to cable office...
...most of England's stately, drafty homes, Cliveden is almost unsupportable in wartime. The great drawing room with its piano and organ has long been closed for lack of fuel, and there is no wood for fires in the bedrooms. Food rationing has shortened weekend guest lists; the servant shortage hampers housekeeping. For two years past, a Canadian military hospital has been established on Cliveden's grounds...
...could trust no one," she said. "Only one servant stayed after the Japs took over and we suspected him of treachery," so that it was impossible to talk to him. Finally the family was reunited after their father, who is now here working on a Chinese dictionary, had been tortured and the household been sacked...
...this new military situation, Italy once more enters the valley of decision. She must decide whether she will exhaust her remaining men, and let her nationhood ebb out as servant of a decaying Nazi state, or whether she will cleanse herself from the evil into which her Fascists have...
...possible. The time was mid-October, three weeks before the U.S. Army planned to invade. All that night and all next day Mark Clark and his men talked and argued with the French officers. All went well until word came that Vichy-controlled police, informed by an Arab servant, were nearing the house...