Word: servante
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...Madam . . . (bound to be popular): in a crudely invented monologue, a servant shows her mistress through a freshly bombed house...
...Semarang, Java, he was educated in Amsterdam, Delft, Leiden (and for a few months later on attended California's Stanford University). He is still proud of his American slang and of being a cover-to-cover reader of TIME. Back in the Indies, he became a civil servant, served a hitch as adviser to the Sultan of Jokyakarta. By 1931, when he decided to take a flyer in politics, he had become-for a Dutch colonial-a man of very liberal ideas. He edited what was known in the Indies as a "radical" weekly...
...believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master...
...gross-featured man has been trade union 'boss' of Britain. . . . He has a great record of trade union administration behind him, but it is of a peculiarly unrepresentative kind. . . . His tone is often dictatorial, revealing that he considers himself the master of his union rather than the servant of his union. ... He forgets he is perched on a pile of pennies...
Before and just after World War I, Prince George of Serbia, elder brother of assassinated King Alexander of Yugoslavia, had the reputation of being the most violent member of a most violent race. He stuck out his tongue at diplomats, killed a servant with a kick, heaved bottles at the windows of Serbia's late great Premier Nikola Pashitch. In 1923 he was declared insane, has since lived in seclusion with his guards, his physician, a succession of girl friends for sparring partners...