Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bells of St. Paul's Chapel tolled the zero hour (2 p.m.), a 700-man academic task force debouched from Nicholas Murray Butler Library and cut across the campus north to Low Memorial Library. In the procession marched the presidents and representatives of 310 U.S. and 38 foreign universities and colleges, ranged in order of seniority-from the University of Bologna (founded 1088) down to New York State University, which so far exists only on paper. Oxford was represented by British Ambassador Sir Oliver Franks, the University of Pennsylvania by President Harold Stassen, Kansas State College by President Milton...
...Pull Down Thy Vanity." The "Pisan Cantos" continue in much the same vein as their predecessors; it's still the same old Ez. He still rants against the capitalists and remembers old friends-T. S. Eliot with acerbity, William Butler Yeats with fondness. At times, he is his old brash and raucous self, praising Benito and gleefully shouting...
...party leadership, new faces were slowly coming to the fore. Chief among these was Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler, who is chairman of the party's committee on policy. In figure and pipe-smoking placidity, he recalls Stanley Baldwin; there might come a time when the exhausted British electorate would like just such...
...Coach Art Valpey's opinion, played "the fineat tackle game I've ever seen at any time." Phil Isenberg and Kenny O'Donnell, standouts in the two previous games this year, made those performances look amateur. Jim Noonan's shifty running outclassed Bobby Jack Stuart's. Doug Bradice, Sam Butler, and Bill Henry were all outstanding...
...innate dignity-not even his habit of crawling on all fours around his house, a Malacca cane clenched between his teeth, in order to observe his latest building schemes from a fresh angle. But once, as Osbert remembers it, he did demean his noble station-when his butler, whose wages were overdue, politely requested an accounting. Shocked to the core by this impudence, Sir George stalked the shrinking varlet slowly across the room, finally whispered in his ear the terrible words: "Shut your ugly...