Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nebraska's plodding Republican Senator Hugh Butler traveled 20.000 miles through Latin America on his own purse last summer, getting madder at the New Deal's Good Neighborliness at every mile. Last week he made two reports to the U.S., one in Reader's Digest ("Our Deep Dark Secrets in Latin America"), the other, a 176-page message to the Senate...
Miss Durbin portrays a young middle-western lady with an ambitious voice. She wants nothing so much as a chance to display it before Hit-Composer Franchot Tone. Her surprise and delight may be imagined when she discovers that her brother (Pat O'Brien) is the boozy butler of Composer Tone's Park Avenue penthouse. But it is Butler O'Brien's special business to keep thrushes out of this quiet nest, and for several reels Miss Durbin, though she crowbars her way into a maid's job there, has to content herself with charming...
...reading: books on India, Bishop Butler, Adam Smith, Hume, Gibbon, the Bible, anti-slavery pamphlets, reports...
...AFFAIR "OF THE FAINTING BUTLER -Clifford Knight - Dodd, Mead...
...Would you like to come up and look at my merit badges?"). Sometimes Darrow strikes a fine fantastic strain of social criticism. There is, for example, his classic comment on the profit motive. An incredibly cushy plutocrat sits in deep torpor and upholstery and hands a newspaper to his butler: "I'm through with the paper, Roberts. Take it out and sell it." Other Darrow scenes...