Word: servante
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...wide U.S.S.R.; Hitler has already broken it by conquering its richest fields, taking many of its factories, conquering many of its people. Now Stalin must salvage the remains. But in the process he was more than likely to be broken himself. In his desperation he was like the servant in the legend who made another retreat to another Samarra...
There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said: "Master, just now when I was in the market place I was jostled by a woman in the 'crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture; now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find...
...records, Hitler's grandmother had an illegitimate son, and this son was to become the father of Germany's present leader. But an inquiry once ordered by the late Austrian chancellor, Engelbert Dollfuss, disclosed that the Fuhrer's grandmother became pregnant during her employment as a servant in a Viennese family. . . . And the family . . . was none other than that of Baron Rothschild...
Last winter the Protestant Associates of America gathering in New York (over 600 present) . . . cited Mr. Ickes as follows: "An honest and faithful servant of the people of the United States, you will be remembered by our children as the one who administered fearlessly and without favor those measures which have preserved for them their heritage of soil...
...lord answered . . . Cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth...