Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what money he had to good effect. To the old-time classical curriculum, so beloved of the Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamars, Lee, who had spent four years defending the planters' leisure-class culture, soon added vulgar practical courses of agriculture, commerce and applied chemistry, thus anticipating Nicholas Murray Butler's Columbia by some decades...
HARVARD DARTMOUTH Hovenanian, l.w. r.w., Guibord Holmes, c. c., Allen Hallowell, r.w. l.w., Riley Watts, l.d. r.d., Fitzpatrick Dow, r.d. l.d., Butler Emerson, g. g., Harris...
...President Roosevelt gave a formal reception for the Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court. Only four attended: Messrs. Hughes, Butler, Roberts, Stone. Very much on hand was Attorney General Cummings, sitting on a table, swinging his legs, laughing, chatting in high good humor to show that he was not worried by what the old gentlemen might decide about Gold...
...both croquet court and pool. The ranch is under the special care of "Ceegee," who does the hiring, firing and ordering. Of a week-end there will be from ten to 25 guests at La Estancia. Harpo Marx came for a day, stayed a week. Two Chinese cooks, a butler, a second man, a maid for the cabins, take care of the guests, except at luncheon, which is prepared by Mrs. Norris herself in a picnic grove cookhouse...
...reason why conversation isn't so good as it used to be, and ought to be, is that people go to teas, and stand up all through them. You can't talk well standing up, he says, which just goes to show that he's never met Smedley D. Butler, Hugh S. Johnson or One-Eyed Connolly, or never stood up in a pre-war saloon, where conversation was practically rampant...