Word: servante
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...lift even one tapering Parisian finger to raise it out of a chaos in which slie has no interest. Now that the League has done its dirty work, France finds herself in the embarrassing position of the housewife who must once and for all get rid of an old servant without having the neighbors accuse her too loudly of cruelty and ingratitude...
...racial flag of their own; prohibits them from flying the German flag; bars Jews from marrying outside their race in Germany; bars them, whether married or not, from having sexual relations across the race line; and, as a final deterrent, forbids a Jew to employ a German female servant less than 45 years...
...office at the Department of Agriculture, behind a desk often littered with drawing papers, crayons and watercolors, sits a quizzical, conscientious public servant whose fame is far greater as Cartoonist J. N. ("Ding") Darling of Des Moines, Iowa than as Director Darling of the U. S. Biological Survey. Upon him, for many months, have converged strong currents of conflicting opinion, brought to bear by two opposing armies of enthusiasts on an issue which it was ''Ding" Darling's public trust and duty to decide...
...TIME'S cinema critic, a thoroughgoing rebuke for writing "John Vincey's body," instead of "John Vincey's body servant...
...discussion of that stupendous inanity billed as She [TIME, July 22]. I fidgeted through one showing of this insult to my imagination, but was attentive enough to notice that the gentleman preserved in ice "like a lamb chop in aspic'' was not John Vincey, but his valiant servant who had had a terrific encounter with a sabre-toothed monster. John Vincey, on the other hand, was miraculously preserved on a very uncomfortable looking slab, only to be unceremoniously consumed by a powerful potion poured over him by She, herself, when Leo Vincey appears to be a reincarnation...