Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Manhattan the Oxford Group presented an even better-documented case. At a meeting at the Hotel Plaza a small, bald, 54-year-old butler named Francis ("Frank") Sweeney arose to give testimony to the audience of 1,500. His employer, Mrs. Alan M. Limburg of White Plains, N. Y., whose husband is a nephew of New York's Governor Lehman, had just told how, born a Jewess, she had had difficulty in coming to know Christ. Then Butler Sweeney said...
Convert Sweeney soon became the steward of Calvary House, a mission ably run by Rev. Samuel Moor ("Sam") Shoemaker, rector of Manhattan's Calvary Episcopal Church and No. 1 U. S. Group leader. Later he went as butler to Mrs. Limburg, joining with her once a week in "quiet time" (communion with...
Obviously Nemesis is right in saying that the stuffed shirts of present day corruption don't mind any verbal formulation that he or I can invent. Neither Nick Butler nor any other sustainer of Monty Norman minds being addressed as venomous serpent or by any other 18th century pejorative, but they run silent from INFORMATION...
...toys of their youth to bring forth only a decrepit wool-stuffed policeman-doll. Mrs. Angell smoothed its uniform somewhat but couldn't do anything about the runs in the flat-foot's stockings. Nevertheless she sallied forth in full evening dress with the sergeant in her arms. The butler was visibly astonished but imagined that there was to be a gay old time in the town that night...
...married dark-haired Princess Astrid of Sweden after a courtship that set lady-novelists' hearts aflutter. In order not to attract attention Prince Leopold paid flying visits to Sweden in a third class railway coach, carrying his own bags. People thought he was a new butler. Announcing the engagement, beaming King Albert said...