Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When slight, precocious, 16-year-old Freshman "Murray" Butler got his first glimpse of Columbia in 1878, it was a college with 227 students and a little cluster of buildings on one city block. Last week, when 83-year-old Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler handed in his resignation as president of Columbia, the university could boast 30,000 resident students, assets worth $231,561,407, a reputation as one of the biggest and finest universities in the world...
Columbians have long referred to Dr. Butler as "Almus Pater." The luster of world acclaim he received through his ubiquitous personal activities he passed on to his school. He has been decorated by 15 foreign nations and honored with degrees from 37 universities. H. G. Wells once called him "the champion international visitor and retriever of foreign orders and degrees." President for 20 years of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, he won half a 1931 Nobel Prize. Friend Theodore Roosevelt dubbed him Nicholas Miraculous (after St. Nicholas Thaumaturgis, the "Miracle Maker"). Butler himself, never a diffident man, wrote some...
Columbia waxed great, not because of President Butler's single-mindedness but in spite of his versatility. A voracious appetite for responsibility was his shining virtue and his chief vice. While it nurtured Columbia, it distracted Butler into politics, lured him into a maze of inconsistencies that may have kept him from achieving his fondest ambition: the Presidency...
...prose could not produce a dull or unimportant book. He writes about the great figures of his time the way other biographers write about eccentric family servants. And he writes about friends unknown to the world-Andrew Green, "Swelly" Bangs, Bob Barlow, Howard Gushing, Howard Sturgis, Bob Potter, Lawrence Butler-as if they were philosophers whose minds he studied as he studied those of Hegel and Plato. Some of his portraits...
Barbara Hutton Grant, five-&-dime heiress, surprise-partied her newlywed personal maid and chauffeur at her Bel-Air, Calif, estate with a guest list of 50 chefs, valets, butlers, maids. Cinemactor Gary Grant, the hostess' estranged husband, sent his valet with a check for the happy couple. Hit of the evening-aside from the mistress' serving-was the little performance of sleight-of-hand tricks by Edwards, butler to Lady Mendl. "Miss Hutton did practically everything but wash the dishes," observed one breathless, gratified guest. The party over, "Miss Hutton" and her house guest, the Baroness de Rothschild...