Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poets too much for them, have produced tortured versions in an idiom neither poetic nor colloquial and almost impossible to read. In the joyless task of selecting the best, Editors Oates and O'Neill unaccountably passed up two excellent modern translations: Sophocles' Oedipus the King by William Butler Yeats, Euripides' Alcestis by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Otherwise, their handsome and handy collection presents all of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides in about the best light available. More interesting to most readers will be ten "anonymous" translations of Aristophanes in which that playwright's obscenity is done...
...heyday of Freudian psychology during the 20s, nearly every intelligentsiac bought at least "one simple popularization of Freud's works and could reel off an impromptu psychoanalysis at the drop of a symbol. With Depression, Freud was more & more often supplanted either by such former disciples as Alfred Butler, who called his adaptation "Individual Psychology," or by Karl Marx. To some observers, Freud's declining popularity among common readers looked permanent...
...five years ago this July, Georgia readers read with apoplectic rage a new book called A Residence on a Georgian Plantation, the devastating abolitionist journal of Fanny Kemble, famous English actress who abandoned the stage on her U. S. tour to marry a wealthy Georgia plantation owner named Pierce Butler. No Southern writer has ever said a good word for Fanny Kemble. But last week, in Davison-Paxon's book department in Atlanta, Ga., Margaret Armstrong's Fanny Kemble, a sympathetic and excellent biography of this colorful Victorian, outsold all other titles. Elsewhere it crowded the leading...
Brain behind the idea is an Admirable Crichton named Charles Moody, 34-year-old son of a Southampton dock superintendent, "America's foremost British Butler," editor of Staff, secretary & treasurer of the Butlers Club, author of four books 'and 80 short stories. Professionally, however, the impeccable Mr. Moody is butler to Mrs. William J. Babington Macaulay (formerly Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady of Manhattan and Manhasset, L. I.), wife of Eire's Minister to the Vatican...
This week, tireless Butler Moody, well on his way to becoming a domestic tycoon, also announced in Staff that he would supervise a commercially-sponsored series of films in the interests of better living for the masses. The motto: "If you cannot afford to employ help in your own home, at least know how to do things right...