Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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David B. Arnold, Jr., Richard H. Allen, Roy W. Atherton, Malcolm H. Brodrick, John Bruzza, John J. Butler, Robert W. Chase, Leon Danco, Jr., Howard R. Diller, E. Thayer Drake, John D. Eusden, John W. Frenning, Charles P, Gabeler, Robert W. Gillette, Robert N. Ginsburgh, Paul D. Grindle, Donald Harting, Thomas T. Hoffman, Armiger Jagoe, Jr., Nelson F. Hermance...
...usual, Rochester and Virginia steal the show. The dusky Juliet tolerates no playing around on her balcony after learning that Rochester has been elected star Romeo by all the ebony maidens of the Social and Come-What-May Club at Stratford on the Harlem. But the Willkie voiced butler reaches Virginia's over Shakespeare's dead body to provide a half-dozen of the most hilarious stunts in a film where nearly everything goes on and nearly as much comes...
...trial was that of a Negro butler-chauffeur accused of raping his young socialite employer, Eleanor Strubing, pretty wife of an advertising executive in Greenwich, Conn., suburb of New York City. According to her testimony she found him in her bedroom one evening when she emerged from a shower bath wearing only a towel, was raped thrice in various parts of the house, bound, gagged, threatened with a knife, taken for two automobile rides, finally thrown into an icy reservoir near which she was found hysterical. The Negro's defense was that she had invited his advances. A jury...
While Seasoned Cooks Ben Butler, Gelett Burgess, Ole ("Hellzapoppin") Olsen, and Rube Goldberg looked on, ex-Congressman Bruce Barton thrust a spoonful of his best spaghetti between the large lips of Illustrator Arthur William Brown, which thereupon smacked noisily, made other sounds indicating that Adman Barton had proved himself worthy of membership in Manhattan's Society of Amateur Chefs...
...days after Franklin Roosevelt's third inauguration, James Clark McReynolds, who will be 79 on Feb. 3, resigned as Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. He was the last of the archconservatives. Justices Willis Van Devanter and George Sutherland had retired; Justice Pierce Butler, solid rock of conservatism, had died. The last leaf on the old tree was Justice McReynolds, and even his fierce keening ("The Constitution is gone! . . . This is Nero in his worst form") had subsided from grumpy, almost invariably dissenting opinions into simple votes of "No" against liberal legislation...