Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hackett thereupon decided to start a school in a wholesome atmosphere. By having his pupils commute, instead of keeping them as boarders, he proposed to combine the advantages of country school life and "the steadying influences of a good home." Encouraged by Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler, Hackett sank his capital, $500, into a quarter's rent on an old Riverdale house, where he opened his school in the fall of 1907 with twelve students. He canvassed apartment houses for pupils and was one of the first headmasters to use display advertisements...
...following men were named to associate professorships: Dr. Fuller Albright, now assistant professor of Medicine; Dr. Allan M. Butler, now assistant professor of Pediatrics; and Dr. Hiram H. Merritt, now assistant professor of Neurology...
Phase No. 2 took place at Mayor Orden's "five-room palace." By the fire sat Dr. Winter, the town historian and physician, "bearded and simple and benign." "What's the Mayor doing?" he asked the butler. "Dressing to receive the Colonel, sir. . . . Madame is trimming the hair out of his ears. It tickles...
...people have elected me. They made me and they can unmake me. Perhaps they will if they think I have gone over to you." Just then the butler broke in: "It's Annie [the cook]. She's getting angry...
...looking through the window at Annie. She hates that." "They are doing no harm," said the Colonel. "Well, Annie hates to be stared at." Soon "from the doorway came the sound of an angry woman's voice and a thump and a man's cry." The butler scuttled...