Word: servant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cars. The rest live in the suburbs and pursue suburban hobbies on their own time. They go to the movies and theater four times a month, opera and concerts rarely. They smoke hard (1¾ packs a day), and only two are teetotalers. Half of them have a servant, and one, the lucky fellow, has three...
...makes the creation of works of the highest art his sole and supreme business in life needs before all things a woman to be his servant, his mother, his nurse, his devotee, his housekeeper, and not at all necessarily his bedfellow. . . . As Watts could paint and sculpt in the grand manner as easily as other men can walk or talk, he must be ranked as one of the most fortunate of mortals and yet the most dependent on women...
When Oliver Cowdery, one of the faithful, indiscreetly started having revelations of his own, he was promptly rebuked by God in an unequivocal counter-revelation (via Joseph): "Behold, I say unto thee, Oliver ... no one shall be appointed to receive commandments and revelations in this Church, excepting my servant Joseph Smith...
Witty, studious William Henry Hastie, 41, appointed by President Truman last week, has been dean of Washington's Howard University Law School for six years,' has long been a capable public servant. Born to a pharmacist father and schoolteacher mother in Knoxville, Tenn., he was graduated magna cum laude from Amherst, went on to Harvard Law School. There he became one of the few Negroes ever to serve on the Law Review, and one of Felix Frankfurter's Happy Hot Dogs...
...robot went on strike in Paris. This civil servant, a machine that tells the time over the telephone, did not ask for more; it simply got stuck. Over & over it told Parisians that the time was 9:04 a.m., thereby made many late for work...