Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost axiomatic is the belief that jobbing is doomed as an economic function. The wholesaler, runs the argument, will be inevitably squeezed to death between chain-store competition and direct-to-retailer selling by manufacturers. One jobber who has refused to accept this fate is Butler Brothers, one of the biggest U. S. wholesale houses.* Last week Butler's President Frank Simpson Cunningham told his stockholders that in 1935 their company sold $73,000,000 worth of hardware, cutlery, jewelry, furniture, notions, dresses, towels, etc., and retained $1,285,000 as net profit. That was a little better than...
...forces in France during the World War; of coronary occlusion; in Manhattan. He returned from the War with six medals, an unswerving conviction that the Army and Navy were obsolete war-toys, and a gift for invective second only to that of Generals Smedley Butler and Hugh S. Johnson. As assistant chief of the Army air forces, he nettled his superiors so often that he was not reappointed. Removed to Texas as a colonel, he blew off the lid in 1925 by charging the War and Navy Departments with "almost treasonable'' administration, used the same words and others...
...marries the intended victim. We are rather glad Melvyn Douglas met Gail Patrick and decided to change his taking ways because there have been so many 'best jewel thiefs in all of Europe" on the screen in the last two years that we were getting rather confused. The butler and valet have come into an increasingly important role in many stores lately and Raymond Walburn justifies his promotion to the rank of valet in this picture...
...entirely disconnected from the evidence in the proceeding scenes. Chan is also spoiling the use of Chinese proverbs as a means of building character interest and is using fourth-rate ones in the present case. The minor roles, except for Herbert Mundin who plays the part of Baxter, the butler, are unimportant...
...Harvard student of two hundred years ago was fed in a manner closely resembling that of the English colleges, the "buttery" books reveal. Close to the main dining hall there was a pantry, managed by the butler, where students might order extra or special portions of choose, ale, butter, bread, jam, and the like, if they desired. When such an order was filled, the butler marked the purchase against the student's name listed on a record sheet tacked to the wall. Many of these record sheets are bound up in the "buttery" ledger...