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...Below stairs" this setup is neatly imitated by Bullivant the butler and Mrs. Selden the cook, who spend the bulk of the day tyrannizing over two minor lackeys named George and Miriam with just the same genteel, long-winded authorita-tiveness that Horace exercises upstairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Autocrat at the Tea Table | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

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