Word: servante
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...characters are stencils: the shaggy, hard-cidery old grandpa; the devoted, 'disapproving old grandma; the pre-Freudian, high-neck-and-long-sleeves maiden aunt; the warm-hearted servant girl (Peggy O'Donnell). Some of the humor gets grey hairs: The tenth time grandma upbraids grandpa for swearing is scarcely as funny as the first. The narrative, toward the end, begins to stagger and stutter. And Mr. Brink (Frank Conroy) stays up in the apple tree long enough to make the captious wonder if it isn't time for the leaves to turn. But that may be because...
...confused with the British poet and civil servant who wrote...
TIME quotes Mrs. Edithe Dahl (Jan. 17) as claiming to have received a letter from General Franco in which he used the words, "Your obedient servant kisses your foot." Then TIME adds: "To General Franco, who is a married man, this may have proved embarrassing." Error. It is an ancient and courtly Spanish custom to terminate a formal letter to a lady thus...
...which is a conventional abbreviation for "Your obedient servant who kisses your feet." It is rarely written out. The general was being coldly and stiffly polite, and his wife could not have taken the slightest offense...
...have met such a fate as Frank Lloyd Wright's. In 1913, just after he had finished his most light-hearted job, a "goodtime place," as Wright called it, the Midway Gardens in Chicago, a telephone call from Spring Green smote him with catastrophe. A Barbados Negro servant had run amok at Taliesin, murdered its mistress, her two children, an apprentice and three others, burned the living quarters to the ground. Wright went to Taliesin, buried his mistress alone, and lived there alone for months. Then he began to rebuild Taliesin. Finished in 1915, finer than before, the house...