Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Permanent head (director) of the I. L. O. is a tall, angular, alert, onetime British Civil Servant named Harold Beresford Butler, who attended the first I. L. O. conference in Washington in 1919. In 1934 President Roosevelt took the U. S. into the I. L. O. after an 18-year abstention...
Died. William Morgan Butler, 76, one-time (1924-26) Senator from Massachusetts, manager of Calvin Coolidge's 1924 Presidential campaign; of heart disease in Boston. A co-receiver of Hoosac Mills Corp., he brought the suit which led the Supreme Court to declare the AAA's processing tax unconstitutional...
...himself when readers unanimously acclaimed it as the best feature of the day. Another Toronto millionaire prospector is Tony Oklend, an Austrian emigrant who staked Long Lac in 1926. From his pile he bought a big house in the suburbs, hired a platoon of servants headed by a butler. When the servants arrived he called them together to announce: "I don't care what you do around here but I do the cooking...
...Dublin through which Gogarty takes his sometimes headlong but not always straightforward course is peopled with queer, usually delightful characters, many of them transatlantically famed. Francis Hackett, George Moore, AE, William Butler Yeats, many a lesser fish swim through the bright underwater of Gogarty's world, and few of them are not good for a laugh, for Gogarty is never reverent even where he admires. Queerest fish of the lot is one "Endymion," who regularly steers his course home by compass, was once arrested for sabering a ham (which he had previously bought) running off with...
...picture's funniest sequence she puts on a pair of hiking boots, clumps up the stairs in simulation of a drunken male's arrival while Raymond, swathed in yards of striped pongee, listens trembling in his bedroom. Next day, after he has volunteered to act as butler at a dinner she is giving to celebrate her engagement, Raymond is horrified to find her fiance is his own brother, Claude (Reginald Owen). Dumping salad dressing over Claude's dinner clothes is a less effective weapon for engagement-breaking than the information Raymond can supply about the debts...