Word: servante
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...here of my own volition," said he. "I come by reason of the fact that I am a servant of the constituency of approximately 300,000 people, the same as all of you men. ... I would have to be here if we were living in tents...
...cowboy who worships Napoleon, has false teeth, and in part owes his rise to Oswaldo Aranha. He talks so much about imbuing Brazilians with military spirit that he has had to deny any personal ambition to be a military dictator. To all appearances he is a good & loyal servant of Dictator-President Getulio Vargas and as such he will be accorded honors only less than those due a visiting ruler. A tank escort, a military guard at the Brazilian Embassy, a chat with Franklin Roosevelt, tea with Cordell Hull, the personal attentions of Chief of Staff Malin Craig are part...
Kyra Goritzina quotes Thackeray: "Lucky is the man whose servant speaks well of him." In Service Entrance she speaks well of only two of the nine households in which she and Sergei worked. Mr. Pettyjohn (she names no real names), a socialite banker, was agreeable despite the fact that he tested his servants by scattering cigar ashes in out-of-the-way spots. Mrs. Lowell was kind, looked after the Goritzins in illness, raised their wages to $200 a month, reluctantly let them go when she moved into a house that was too big for them to manage. The rest...
...Invasions. He saw Petra before Doughty, was nearly killed there by the Arabs, muddled through with superb British calm. Fanatics tried to assassinate the author of The Owl and the Pussy-Cat in India, in Turkey. At last Lear settled down in his San Remo villa with an Albanian servant and his cat Foss, "his daily companion for nearly 17 years." There he worked on his illustrations for Tennyson's poems (his musical setting to Tennyson's Tears, Idle Tears, sung in a high thin voice, was long a tear-jerker). He was a prodigious letter writer...
...author, John Jennings, 33, began doing research on the period in 1935, in the belief that "a whopping good story could be written of the time." Next to Valour is indeed a whopper-820 pages, full of "God's wounds" and "I'll warrants" and "Your servant, sirs"-but not such a whopper as Anthony Adverse or Gone With the Wind. Nevertheless, Next to Valour moves quickly and adventurously, should be a natural for Hollywood...