Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Durbin (the lady) gets off the train, and begins a half-farcical, half-melodramatic hunt for the killer. She is variously helped and hin dered by assorted menaces, red herrings and foozlebrains - like Ralph Bellamy and Dan Duryea (as two brothers who loathe each other), George Coulouris (a devilish butler), Allen Jenkins (a sinister chauffeur), David Bruce (a mystery author), and Edward Everett Horton (Edward Everett Horton...
...Folks at Home, My Old Kentucky Home, Massa's in de Cold, Cold Ground) for a glee club which he directed. His marriage to Jane McDowell produced two great songs: Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, in her honor; and Old Black Joe, celebrating the McDowell family butler. For $15 Foster sold the performing rights to his greatest-selling song, Old Folks at Home. It started as Way Down Upon de Pedee Ribber but Stephen, not liking the sound of that, consulted an atlas and discovered Florida's Suwannee River. Minstrel Edwin P. Christy even brought the right...
...what it is about Deaf Smith County, Tex. But for some reason, Deaf Smith citizens are almost immune to tooth decay (TIME, Nov. 10, 1941). Last fortnight Dr. George W. Heard, the local dentist who drew national attention to Deaf Smith's perfect teeth, and Dr. F. Melton Butler of Seattle announced that they had a charter for a foundation to discover, produce and market the essence of Deaf Smith-whatever...
...pair demoted able, honest Butler Laughlin from the presidency of the college to a high-school job because, the report said, he could not be "controlled" and once refused to falsify a student's grades at McCahey's request. Soon McCahey and Johnson began influencing grades without reference to teachers, wangling admissions for incompetent applicants, giving teaching jobs to friends. A city councilman's daughter who had been asked by her teachers to leave was awarded a teaching certificate after flunking 15 hours of class work...
...N.E.A. charged, he again demoted Butler Laughlin to make room for one of McCahey's relatives. On less than a day's notice, he pushed competent Mrs. Olive P. Bruner out of the top job in a school for crippled children, replaced her with the sister of a Federal judge. In one 75-day period last fall, Johnson transferred over 600 teachers, in many cases as punishment or to make room for friends...