Word: servante
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...Thebaw [was] always required to resuscitate and revive the ones making this sacrifice. The White Elephant walked sedately behind the women and put his trunk over their shoulders. Most of them collapsed after the ordeal, for the White Elephant was very exacting. Beside Dr. O'Malley walked a servant bearing a tray with numerous hypodermics of strychnine, nitroglycerine and other heart stimulants, and the doctor needed them all. When the British captured Burma they stopped this performance...
...known Negro in Congress is Representative Oscar De Priest of Illinois. Best-liked Negro at the Capitol is Harry Parker, messenger of the Ways & Means Committee since William McKinley was its chairman 45 years ago." The above statement is true. Harry Parker has been a good, honest and smiling servant for is 45 to years...
THANK YOU, JEEVES! - P. G. Wodehouse - Little, Brown ($2). Funnyman Wodehouse finally rewards a faithful servant by making him the hero of a full-length novel...
...sufficient time to become bemused. The four best stories stand out from the rest like so many painted thumbnails: Three daredevil neurotics with a condemned airplane, no licenses, tour country towns putting on a crazily dangerous show for a living. A Southern officer and his Negro servant, on their way home from the Civil War, stop for the night at the wrong Tennessee mountain cabin...
When commissions are being created overnight by the President, it is indeed comforting to realize that at least one civil servant will be adequately prepared to meet the tasks which a program so extensive as that of the administration requires. V. H. Kramer...