Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thrown upon the streets of Washington, they search desperately for a base of operations from which MacMurray can sally forth to negotiate for an important government priority. The only way they can get lodgings is by masquerading as a butler and cook. They settle in the house of Roland Young and his WAC-officer wife and proceed to turn it into a veritable castle of bedlam. The subsequent scenes are exceedingly funny and, combined with a fast start, label this as a picture to be seen if possible...
...solve the housing problem, Secretary Goddard hires out her boss and herself as husband & wife, butler & cook, to browbeaten, glad-eyed Ira Cromwell (Roland Young), who is trying to make a home for his baritone wife (Anne Revere), a major in the PLOPS.* Later the pair take servant jobs with New Dealer Ritchie, outwit a sneering rival toymaker, cop the contract and each other...
...only U.S. university heads in office longer than Hutchins are Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler (42 years), Clark's Wallace Walter Atwood (23 years) and Cal Tech's Robert Andrews Millikan (22 years...
Hardy and Shaw. Like every publishing house, Macmillan made some crashing mistakes. Unlike most, it could afford them. One of its experts dismissed the writings of Henry James as "honest scribble work and no more." After characterizing the early works of William Butler Yeats as "sheer nonsense," Macmillan's really went overboard and insisted that his works had no more enduring value than "Maeterlinck's . . . Ibsen's . . . or Rossetti...
Bald, grey-fringed, vigorous Dr. Cattell was a pacifist whose opponents always knew they had been in a fight. In 1917, after Columbia University's Nicholas ("Miraculous") Murray Butler had solemnly warned his facultymen against "seditious" behavior, Cattell promptly wrote Congress urging it not to send unwilling draftees to Europe. Butler fired him. Cattell fought back so fiercely that his house in Garrison-on-Hudson was nicknamed Fort Defiance. Cattell's good friend, Historian Charles Beard, quit the University. Cattell sued Columbia for $125,000, finally forced it to settle...