Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months ago they decided to do something about this semi-prohibition. Result: a ding-dong wet-dry battle. Headed by Mayor Allan M. Butler, the wets supported a plebiscite calling upon the Nova Scotian Government to permit establishment of taverns which would sell beer and liquor by the glass. Last week Haligonians voted for taverns...
...Nicholas Murray Butler, 83. president emeritus of Columbia University, sent shocking regrets to a luncheon party for Winston Churchill. Explained Dr. Butler: he had lost his sight. His doctors blamed it on "70 years of overwork...
...army out of World War II's losing camp, he has thus far persuaded the generals to let him decide the time for a restoration. Meanwhile, he enjoys the old Bourbon palaces, hunts and fishes in the old Bourbon parks. When his wife entertains at tea, a butler in white gloves serves Señora Franco first, then doffs the gloves to pour for the guests...
Slapstick & Surgery. In private life, many comedians are sad sacks. Not Danny. Friends who telephone his Hollywood home or his twelve-room Park Avenue apartment often hear the answering voice of a Japanese houseboy, an Italian cook, a Negro valet, an English butler or a Russian piano teacher, patiently wait for Danny to call himself to the phone...
...Diary of a Chambermaid (Benedict Boqeaus-United Artists) reveals no secrets. A toothsome 19th-Century chambermaid (Paulette Goddard) is employed by a wealthy French provincial family. Because of a scowling, scheming family butler (Francis Lederer), she gets into trouble. It is not the classic French chambermaid trouble, but it is bad enough; thereafter matters run to a violent, improbable conclusion...