Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ranging from "Jeeves," the jokester butler, to concert pianists, the entertainment division of the Student Employment Office offers a long and varied roster of entertainers for use at private parties, or organization get-togethers...
Over 40 members of the University are listed in the entertainment bureau's catalogue, which does not include a number of available lectures. "Jeeves," who is a member of the Law School, can be hired for the evening as a butler. For a while he acts in the approved manner, but soon he starts putting his fingers in the soup, washing his hands in the drinking water, and generally upsets the party...
...whom Kane hated; Kane's general manager (Everett Sloan), the sad, loyal, philosophical Jew who stuck by to the end; his former drama editor and best friend (Joseph Gotten) with whom Kane broke after Kane's disastrous try for the Governorship of New York; Kane's butler (Paul Stewart). None knew the meaning of "rosebud." But each in his way understood a little of the man: he was not cruel, but he did cruel things; he was not generous, but he did generous things; he was willful, capricious, and he wanted to be loved...
...letter was sent to Senators Adams, Brewster, Burton, Butler, Bunker, Davis, Downery, Gerry, Furney, Thomas (Okia.), McNary, and Smith...
This was a full diplomatic retreat, for only through the prolonging of war in Europe can Japan hope to snatch more of East Asia. If there was any doubt that Spokesman Ishii was talking for his Government, it was dispelled by British Foreign Under Secretary Richard Austen Butler, who told the House of Commons that the mediation offer had been made official. This week Prime Minister Churchill received Japanese Ambassador Shigemitsu, turned the offer down...