Word: servante
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Last month as preparations for the Manila Congress went forward, Pius XI lay racked with pain, dying some thought, in his third-floor chamber in the Vatican. To his bedside one day went a visitor who could not be put off, an old friend and trusted servant from across the Atlantic: Dennis Joseph Cardinal Dougherty, 71, Archbishop of the See of Philadelphia (824,250 Catholics), Metropolitan of the Province of Philadelphia (2,080,788 souls in six Sees), Titular Priest of Rome's Church of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo, member of the Congregations of the Sacraments, of Sacred Rites...
...newshawks was Mrs. Muench's child-bearing at the age of 42 after 23 years of childless married life. When Dr. Muench, who is not an obstetrician, declared he was the attending physician at the birth, the press began to investigate. Soon they found an unwed Pennsylvania servant girl whose baby had been born in St. Louis and taken from her for adoption by unknown clients at the time Mrs. Muench announced the arrival of her "gift from God." A habeas corpus proceeding was begun in the St. Louis Court of Appeals to recover the baby from Mrs. Muench...
...well, that "it is really underlings who are to blame." For example, an unusual British Foreign Secretary had some overseas friends stopping with him in the latter years of George V's reign, and wanted to take them along to a State Dinner at Buckingham Palace. His civil servant secretary told him he would have to write and ask the U. S. Embassy to nominate these guests officially and in so doing assume responsibility for their behavior and character. This note the Minister of the Crown wrote with his own hand. The Ambassador consulted his Counselor and was told...
...prevent the granting of a divorce in which the "innocent party" (Mrs. Simpson) can be shown to be also adulterous, was much embarrassed last week. Not only had one of the richest women in Britain instructed her lawyers to badger the King's Proctor, but a discharged servant of Edward VIII was said to be not only willing but anxious to have "revenge" upon his former employer by testifying as to whether or not Mrs. Simpson had always been chaperoned when sleeping under the royal roof. In these ghastly circumstances, Britons could only hope that Baldwin the Magnificent...
...thunders: "Let this be your epitaph - 'I struck down the mightiest talent that God ever created for the enrichment of music!'" Grandiosely he flings away the envelope containing a loan of money from her husband, but, a moment before his carriage rolls away, sends a servant back to retrieve...