Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the loss of Toin Grimley, Al Butler, NROTC, is the only man of proven ability, while Sam King and Hans Estin, both Freshmen, appear as the most likely newcomers...
...tell you about the humor on the air last Sunday night. Jack Benny hired an English butler, whom nobody could understand. Isn't that funny? . . . Charlie McCarthy and Margaret O'Brien visited Santa Claus and were chased back to earth by an atom-run train. . . . This is how it goes on Danny Kaye's show, week after week: 'My sister married an Irishman.' . . . 'Oh, really?' . . . 'No. O'Reilly.' ". . . Mrs. Anthony, what is the easiest way to smash a radio...
...recently gave an inkling of what goes on in her pretty young head by choosing Bing Crosby as her favorite crooner, waltzed with a chef in the Royal Servants' Hall of Buckingham Palace. In the same room Lillibet's royal father was taking a whirl with the butler's wife, and her mother with a footman. The occasion: the household staff's annual Christmas party, at which the members of the royal family customarily democratize, the staff admirably Crichton...
Among the silent spectators in the silent courtroom was a woman whose only son had been lost in the sinking of the heavy cruiser Indianapolis in the Philippine Sea last July 30. Another woman who listened was the wife of Captain Charles Butler McVay III, captain of the Indianapolis. McVay had spent four days bobbing in the oil-covered, sun-seared Philippine Sea after the "Indy" went down. It was McVay who was now on trial, charged with negligence and inefficiency in the loss of his ship. He also sat there, listening to the man who had humiliated...
...Rodgers-Hammerstein style songs composed by Sharpe and lyricized by William Scudder are seldom clever, but they're usually spirited and often quite tuneful. Members of the cast deserving distinctly honorable mention are Allan Butler, James Young, Allan Dingwall, Robert Gardner, Scudder, Richard Humphrey, David Mackintosh, George Tilghman, Robert Young, and--but hell, this isn't the social register...