Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took his idea to Nicholas Murray Butler, director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and two years later found himself director of the Carnegie-endowed Institute of International Education. With $60,000 a year from Carnegie, Duggan set to work arranging "marriages" between U.S. and European universities, selected the U.S. students to go abroad on scholarships, placed and chaperoned the visiting students, also promoted faculty exchanges. In its first 25 years the Institute placed 2,046 Europeans and Asiatics and 1,131 Latin Americans in U.S. universities, sent 2,344 U.S. students abroad...
...could have brushed and combed it herself, and not as if it were her habit to have a permanent after every cigaret. She gets along . . . nicely . . . without mink coats, a swan bed, a custom-built Cadillac, a costly and always unspotted negligee in which to help her butler do the housework. . . . This willingness to keep its expenses scaled to life's facts rather than its fantasies is ... what distinguishes the entire movie...
...White Tie and Tails (Universal-International) takes place in the never-never land of romantic farce. It is an agile, simpleminded frolic about a butler, an heiress and a gambler. Dan Duryea, whose pinched, deep-frozen face has heretofore made him particularly suited to playing down-at-heel mugs, is oddly cast as a typically uppity butler...
...night when his rich employers are vacationing in Florida, the butler borrows his absent boss's dress suit and town car to play gentleman (he isn't really a butler at heart, of course-only an unsuccessful painter). Before he knows it, he has rescued a lady in danger (Ella Raines) by indiscreetly signing a hot check for $103,000 payable to a tough-skinned, softhearted gambling king (William Bendix...
...hero & heroine begin to wriggle out of the underworld's clutches, the unwinding plot is too glib and fast to follow. So are the sociological overtones of the young couple's last-reel decision to starve in an artist's garret rather than gorge in a butler's pantry...