Word: servante
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...neither Saint nor Mahatma" [i. e. 'Great Soul'], he told the clamoring worshipping populace gravely. "You must not think me supernatural. I am only a satyagrahi [one who practices truth force, love force, soul force]. I am but a humble servant. I am only common clay...
...Jenny" in the story) was the daughter of a literary hacketeer, he ("David") the scion of a civil servant. Neither had money, both were excited about literature. Her mother disliked and distrusted David and his untrimmed locks, discouraged his steady advances toward her daughter. When Jenny's father died she took a job as governess, managed to see her lover occasionally. Since both disapproved of marriage they planned to live together secretly; but, strong on fancies, they were short on facts. "We were still very ignorant of sex, and only knew in a vague way through the reading of poetry...
...judiciary have all too unwillingly found themselves immersed. Rumors of bribes and office-buying filled the air with acrid odors. Someone traced down several of these odors and, strangely enough, found them sadly true. That someone was Isador Kresel, respected member of the New York bar, an unfailing public servant, and daemoniac detective hounding the paths of careless judiciaries. There ensued sudden resignations, mysterious disappearance and, still more strangely, several convictions. The innocent trembled with the guilty as Justice walked without its customary blind staggers...
...with the following cast: Herr Shaaf Charles Kraus Anna Semenova (Islaev's mother) Minna Phillips Natalie Petrovna (Islaev's wife) Alla Nazimova Mikhail Aleksandrovitch Rakitin Earle Larrimore Lizaveta Bogdanovna (a companion) Virginia Gregori Kolia (Islaev's son) Norman Williams Aleksei Nikolaevich Bieliaev (Kolia's tutor) James Todd Matviei (A servant) Walter Coy Ignati Ilich Spigelski (A doctor) Cecil Yapp Viera Aleksandrovna (Islaev's ward) Franesca Bruning Arkadi Sergicich Islaev (A landowner) Edward Arnold Katla (a maidservant) Glesca Marshall Afanasi Ivanyo Bolshintsov Henry Travers...
...Baumes Law, academic Jones Laws, and the like, the universities keep multiplying their mainly futile attempts to dissolve or break down his resistance. At Rollins College we abolish the motive for it. This we accomplish by prohibiting recitations, prohibiting lectures, and to a large extent making the professors the servants, rather than the masters, of the students. Though a fine sense of bigness results from defying a master, what possible exhilaration is there in defying a servant...