Word: butlerdom
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...some Britons had already seen enough. Cassandra, the terrible-tempered columnist of the London Daily Mirror, dubbed Cronin "this swollen mandarin of backstairs protocol," and railed against his "miserable etiquette, his tawdry patronage and his backbiting desire to make money at the expense of his late employers." British butlerdom reeled with shock. Samuel Bretson, head of the nation's only school for butlers, was in despair at Cronin's repeating "tittle-tattle-and about the royals, too." Cried Bretson: "He is guilty of causing a shameful disturbance, and he didn't ought to have done...
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