Word: servant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Diana Roosevelt had a part-time career as a public servant around Washington. Diana, daughter of Eleanor's late brother Hall, and a sophomore at George Washington University, hustled hash in a coke-&-hamburger joint...
...decaying at a rate which threatens to make a Struldbrug* of me if I persist in living; yet my mind still feels capable of growth . . . [if] the Life Force would give me a body as durable as my mind ... I might begin a political career as a junior civil servant and evolve into a capable Cabinet minister in another hundred years...
...Memory is a study of how the two women react to Luc's disappearance. Françoise has long since given him up for dead, but old Madame La Hourie believes that he will soon return. She hangs out his yellowing shirts to air, orders a servant to drag down from the attic the mattress on which he used to sleep. Françoise tries to humor her mother-in-law's obsession, but in the end becomes almost as obsessed herself...
...When the servant had brought in the lamp and drawn the thick curtains against the night, there was nothing that so pleased the Victorian as to lay back his head on the antimacassar and curdle his comfortable blood with fiction about fiends in human form. So Victorian Novelist Wilkie Collins, who dispensed such fiction, was not displeased, one moonlit night in the 1850s, when a beautiful lady, robed all in white, ran up to him on a lonely road, screaming for succor. She had escaped, explained the white lady, from a fiend who had held her in durance with...
...anybody. Governor Dwight Green had thereupon picked a nobody-a political unknown, Russell W. Root. A big, bumbling bear of a man notable only for his party loyalty, his amiability, and his political ritualism ("I'll go along"), Root's undistinguished career as lawyer and minor public servant did not stand up well under comparison with Kennelly...