Word: servitor
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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...
...religiously minded for Soviet comfort. No question regarding religious belief or disbelief will be asked in the present census, nor will Soviet citizens again be allowed to list themselves as prostitutes, lackeys or tramps. Soviet citizens will be occupationally grouped under broader terms. The classification for priests is "servitor of a cult"; for one who doesn't earn his living, "non-toiler"; for artists, writers etc.,' "members of a free profession...
...telling one another that Shirley Temple and Abraham Lincoln would make "an unbeatable combination." Definitely un beatable, the combination is well planted in this picture. When the Great Emancipator (Frank McGlynn Sr.) receives in his office Virgie Carey, "The Littlest Rebel of Them All," accompanied by her faithful black servitor, it is to plank the child on his desk, share an apple with her and hear from her the sad old story about the dashing Confederate scout (John Boles) who happens to be her widowed father...
Asked last week to comment on the controversy as to whether Southerners ever use ''you-all" in the singular,* Professor Greet said that the expression is usually collective, but sometimes resembles the French vous, as when a Negro servitor might say to a single person, with no sense of intimacy: "Kin ah call a cab fo' y'awl?" Southern-born, Professor Greet speaks with a faint accent, by no means resembles an "elocution" teacher, says: "We want to make Americans speak like Americans, not like a cross between Walter Hampden and an Englishman...