Word: servante
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America has no "servant class" bred up to niceties of the household and restaurant as in England, and the notion of it is altogether discordant with any liberal traditions that we are fortunate enough to have. The suggestion that more attention be paid to the small amenities, noticed only when absent, draws no lines or social distinction, as it applies in nearly as great force to the student body. Furthermore, it would be hard for anyone at all to be a Lord Chesterfield on a salary or some twelve dollars a week. Yet that small extra effort, which soon becomes...
...wife, verging on collapse, daubs her face with cold cream while pouring out her anguish to a husband whose attention is distracted by a bumbling search for toothpaste. Miss Delafield also occasionally gets off such lines as: "Every Englishman is an average Englishman." The husband, ringing for the harried servant in spite of the wife's wishes, observes with exquisite Edwardian pomposity: "What's the use of keeping a dog if you do your own barking...
...very meet, right, and our bounden duty that we should give thanks unto Thee, 0 Lord, Holy Father, Almighty, Everlasting God, for that Thou wast pleased as on this day to set Thy servant our Sovereign Lord, King George, upon the Throne of this Realm and has profited him in days of sickness and of health throughout his reign of five and twenty years...
...Smith called upon Rogers in 1928 to edit the Democratic National Campaign book; and in 1933 he turned "public servant" as Deputy Administrator of the N.R.A. He also served as Moreland Commissioner to investigate the New York State Department of Labor...
...This case has been called a trumpery one, but on the other hand ... it is a very vexatious thing to have a servant suddenly whisked off in the middle of her morning's work. ... In regard to the libel you may consider this the more serious matter of the two. You all know what village post offices...