Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...everyone knows, with an old Irish fisherman, the antithesis of the savage angler in I Cover the Waterfront (see above), and his daughter who inherits ?2,000,000. With her small mongrel Michael, she goes to England to live in a manor house where she squabbles with the butler, falls in love with a young solicitor, is informed that her father is dead. By the time this report is exploded, she has learned enough about the depraved habits of the aristocracy to scuttle happily back to Ireland...
...Feckless Dinner-Party," a gro- tesque parable of how a sophisticated group of diners were led astray by the butler ("Toomes") into the dark, silent cellars, the broken conversational lines may remind the reader of de la Mare's famed relation, Robert Browning, but the theme and its unraveling are very delaMare. "Thus Her Tale" tells of a suicide's ghost that still haunts her undiscovered bones, hidden in a thicket. In "The Owl," a baker's wife and daughter are shamed and frightened out of their wits and into their true selves by the silent gaze...
Wayne Andrews, J. L. Angel, A. K. Barcewicz, S. M. Bessie, R. H. Blickensderfer, J. G. Bradley, Alan Burnham, W. E. Butler, H. A. Carter, A. L. Colfelt, T. A. Dana, S. T. Dawson, R. B. Dort, L. P. Eliel, S. M. Emerman, Albert Flower., Jr., J. B. Ford, G. G. Fox, P. F. Fox, G. F. Gilsmore, M. S. Harris, G. D. Haskell, R. C. Hayes, C. A. Redblom, H. M. Hoyt, Millard Humstone, W. W. A. Johnson, S. L. Judkins, Andrew Kaemarcyk, E. P. Kambhu, J. T. Klapper, D. F. LaSala, W. H. Lee, W. H. Lipsitt...
...autumn with a new, cheap recording instrument which makes aluminum discs playable on any phonograph. A pioneer recorder, not actively connected with the Atlas, is Barnard's Professor William Cabell Greet. He has recorded Maine farmers, Blue Ridge mountaineers, Barnard girls, Herbert Hoover, Alfred E. Smith, Nicholas Murray Butler, the late Poet Vachel Lindsay, the London Naval Conference and the late Calvin Coolidge ("perfect Connecticut Valley...
...helped the Sultan of Borneo's uncle put down a rebellion, got the Raj of Sarawak in return.) Married. Margaret Dawes. 24, daughter of Utilities Man Rufus Cutler Dawes, president of Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition; and one Beverly Jefferson, 28; in Chicago. Married, Sarah Schuyler Butler, thirtyish, onetime vice chairman of New York's Republican State Committee, only child of Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler; and Captain Neville Lawrence, London broker; in Manhattan. Seeking Divorce. Joan Crawford Fairbanks, cinemactress; from Douglas Fairbanks Jr., cinemactor. Grounds: "grievous mental cruelty"; "a jealous and suspicious...