Word: butler
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Challenger Joseph E. Maynard finished fourth with 2494 votes. After him came Hayes, Good, and then newcomers Lorraine A. Butler (seventh with 2251) and Donald A. Fantini (eighth with...
...most part, the CCA candidates strong showing yesterday in this year's election seems due to the fact that three of them-Hayes. Mrs. Butler and Fantini-had strong bases of their own in addition to the upper-middle class and University-affiliated voters who normally form the backbone of the CCA's vote...
Harvard personnel director John B. Butler replied that "Our recruiting effort lasted many months and included many local candidates. We did not find one who satisfied our requirements as exceptionally as Mr. Kinnard does. They [the NAACP] seem to say that we ruled out local people and went out to the foothills of Cincinnali to find someone. This is not the case...
...from the Victorian passion for theological speculation. "Mere agnosticism leads nowhere," he once wrote. "I hold as firmly as St. Thomas Aquinas that all truths, ancient or modern, are divinely inspired." Shaw believed in evolution, but was worried about the diverse effects of Darwinist thinking. He agreed, with Samuel Butler, that "by banishing purpose from natural history Darwin had banished mind from the universe." Shaw would have no part of a universe from which a first-rate mind (such as his own) was expelled...
After making her abdication speech, Dame Sibyl retired to her comfy manor house to sulk. Her butler told callers that she was not at home. But the Dame's problems were far from solved. Guernsey's head of government, Sir William Arnold, announced that "the people of Sark must make up their own minds. Knowing Sark people as I do, I think they will wish to continue going their own way" Dame Sibyl's great-grandmother paid $14,400-for Sark in 1852. It was now beginning to look as if the Dame could not even give...