Word: servitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout, Fulcun pursues God as closely as he does Aide. He goes barefoot to a hostile bishop to escape excommunication. He becomes a novitiate monk. But God, like the woman, will not have him as a servitor, and he retreats at last to a ramshackle hut on the coast of Brittany to live in humble poverty. This, seemingly, is his final penance, for Aide comes to him: "She took his hand, and they went on together to the hayfield through the cool heavy...
Since the days when he was enrolled on the staff at stately 400-year-old Diddington Hall, Rodwell Patience had been a model manservant. As an apple-cheeked footman, he was up at dawn each day to oil the lamps and trim the wicks. No faithful servitor in the vicinity could pad about with such noiseless efficiency or efface himself with such dignity as Patience, and he was a dab at removing the pips from his master's grapes before setting them on table...
Married. Prentice Cooper, 54, wealthy ex-Governor of Tennessee, loyal servitor of Memphis Boss Ed Crump, and former U.S. Ambassador to Peru; and U.N. Administrative Assistant Hortense Powell, 30; both for the first time; in Manhattan...