Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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LeBel (B) defeated Wilcox (H), 2-1; Orr (H) defeated Noyes (B), 3-0; LeBel and Noyes (B) defeated Wilcox and Orr (H), 2-1; Rickenbacker (H) defeated Wilkinson (B), 3-0 Johnson (B) defeated Butler (H), 3-0; Rickenbacker and Butler (H) tied Wilkinson and Johnson (B), 11/2-11/2; Savidge (H) tied Davis (B), 11/2-11/2; Kinicutt (H) defeated Marshall (B), 2-1; Savidge and Kinicutt (H) tied Davis and Marshall (B), 11/2-11/2...
Bill Rickenbacker and Walter Butler, veterans of last year's informal club, will occupy the third and fourth posts in their first competition of the season today...
Arriving in Paris, they soon find themselves without funds. Impoverished, they are forced to accept employment as butler and maidservant in order to earn a living. From here the play develops in farcical fashion...
...Plague. Among the men around Churchill in this moment of decision would be several who have hoped to inherit his leadership: tired, greying, 49-year-old Anthony Eden (most Britons still think of him as younger and more dynamic than he actually is); cool, aloof Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler; able Sir Oliver Lyttelton; clever Harold Macmillan; lazy Oliver Stanley. But there was little doubt that the telling weight in the decision would be Churchill's. And there was almost no doubt that Churchill would decide against trying for a knockout blow...
Fairly certain to make the squad, according to Barclay, are Bill Rickenbacker, Walter Butler, who played on last year's informal team, Tyke Wilcox, Bob Orr, and Lawrence Kinnicutt. All of these clubmen have been breaking into the seventies more or less consistently...