Word: servante
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...thrown a specialized and non-political institution into the quagmire of partisan dispute. That a technical prison investigation should be conducted by an auditor is inappropriate enough; but that the newspapers and public should consign it to the limbo of ward politics is grave injustice to a public servant whose honesty, ability, and usefulness to the state have never before been questioned...
...time of an explosion caused by the tapping of a gas well almost at his front gate. Embittered by this sad experience and alien to the despoiling methods of the new enterprise, he raises his son as a true child of the soil, mothered only by Mamie, a young servant girl, and Aunt Fanny, a woman already well on in years. "The man and this hebetic image of himself walked the straight ways" refusing to become wealthy by selling the farm as the Karchers had done, in cause of the industrial venture. Early in the book we have a premonition...
...ancient and vague connections with California, was about to appeal to his Senator William Gibbs McAdoo to save his business. The First Lady took shears, neatly clipped the paragraph, pinned it to a sheet of paper, scrawled on the paper: ''Must this man go? E. R." A servant carried the paper to Presidential Secretary Stephen T. Early. Mr. Early started to set the executive office machinery in motion, then abruptly halted it. The President's Negro valet, Irvin Henry McDuffy, friend of Steve and also a reader of the Evening Star, had shown it to the President...
Since only water was served free, the party was a little stiff until midnight. Then Mrs. Marshall Field arrived from a party she had given for patronesses to keep them out of their servants' party. She made a little speech ignoring the guests' servant status and from the boxes the British butlers bayed, like the House of Lords, "Hear! Hear!" Soon thereafter guests stopped watching each other. The hotel was serving drinks in two dining rooms whence presently came impromptu chorus singing. A delegation of White Star Line stewards arrived from the S. S. Majestic to scrape acquaintance...
...illegally extending their authority into the Saar have received official confirmation by the publication of the text of a report made to the League of Natians' Secretariat by Mr. G. G. Knox, president of the League's Saar governing commission. In this report Mr. Knox, a former British civil servant, reveals that the Nazis have subtly penetrated the Saar to such an extent that they have set up what amounts to an extra-legal government that in many cases wields more power than the actual governing body. Nasi Storm Troops are secretly maintained and drilled and exercised despite the fact...