Word: butler
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...army of underlings who made these idle splendors possible. In The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro tries to right that imbalance: he reconstructs in fiction the world of a stately home in its heyday, between the two world wars, from the point of view of a butler...
Stevens has been the butler at Darlington Hall in Oxfordshire since 1922. It is now 1956, and his new employer, an American named Mr. Farraday, encourages the butler to take a brief vacation in the owner's vintage Ford. Stevens hesitantly agrees. Running Darlington Hall with a staff of four, which Mr. Farraday has requested, as opposed to the 17 assistants Stevens once supervised, has been hard on his nerves. A drive to the West Country might do him good. Besides, Stevens has received a letter from Miss Kenton, the housekeeper who resigned in 1936 to be married, revealing that...
Jeeves, the butler, is the sure-five cure for hangovers, lack of fashion sense and meddling aunts. The play depicts how Reginald Jeeves, a gentleman's gentleman, first meets his employer Bertram "Bertie" Wooster and starts to run his life...
...five-game series, he reached base 15 times out of 22, batted .650, scored eight runs and drove in eight, with two homers. "It's no coincidence that at the most important time of the year, Will's at the very top of his game," says teammate Brett Butler. "That's what great players do, like Stan Musial and Ted Williams. Now you have to put Will in that class...
Bush has also allowed the right to veto some appointments. Two weeks ago, conservatives torpedoed M. Caldwell Butler, the White House's tentative choice to be chairman of the Legal Services Corporation. But Butler's future dimmed when the former Virginia Congressman told a group of conservatives that he would not stop a Legal Services lawyer from suing a hospital that refused to provide a Medicaid abortion. The group complained to chief of staff John Sununu, who backed away from the nomination...