Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...During a night of drinking in Little Falls, N.J., grey-haired Mrs. Geneva Humphrey decided that her middle-aged husband was taking up with another woman. At 3 a.m., lacking any other weapon, she chased him down the street with the family automobile. Husband Hugh Humphrey, a butler by trade, dodged nimbly into a driveway, discovered too late it was a dead end. His wife drove in after him and squashed him to death between the bumper and a cellar door...
This week, in an ordnance classroom at the Washington Navy Yard, Captain Charles Butler McVay III tensely fingered his class ring as he was arraigned before a seven-man court on two charges...
...Columbia's square-set President Nicholas Murray Butler sat next a judge of the State Supreme Court in the uptown elevated. "Judge Gildersleeve," said he, "I have good news for you. I've just decided to make your daughter dean of Barnard." The judge considered his verdict carefully. "I am not surprised," he said at last. "Virginia will make you a good dean...
...Room Ballads, were printed first by Henley-as were the stories of the Polish emigrant, Joseph Conrad, J. M. Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson, sections of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, H. G. Wells's The Time Machine, the early lyrics of William Butler Yeats-and even the formal Henry James's What Maisie Knew...
...Grimley and Al Butler, both in NROTC, form the experienced nucleus of those who have already applied for their Eastern Slope Amateur Ski Association memberships...