Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daughters Frances Tracy Pennoyer and Jane Norton Nichols, their husbands Paul and George, and daughters-in-law Louise Converse Morgan and Catherine Adams Morgan; $50,000 apiece to his secretary, John Axten, and Director Belle da Costa Greene of the Pierpont Morgan Library in Manhattan; $25,000 to butler Henry Physick; $20,000 apiece to valet Bernard Stewart, chauffeur Charles Robertson; his father's watch-chain charm (a seal), to grandson John Pierpont Morgan...
...hands requires 137 years' worth of story-or very nearly forever and a day. The story concerns a fabled house in London, from its building by a British admiral in 1804 until its destruction by a Nazi bomb. Among its starry occupants are Charles Laughton (a tipsy butler), Sir Cedric Hardwicke (a plumber), Claude Rains (a rich villain), Roland Young (a boarder), Merle Oberon (a desk clerk), Anna Neagle (a grownup foundling). Good scene: Brian Aherne (a coal heaver) making love to Ida Lupino (a scullery maid...
Dining at the swank Sutton Place apartment of Manhattan Banker Charles Edwin Mitchell, Wendell Lewis Willkie jumped slightly every time Mrs. Mitchell spoke to the butler, finally got used to the fact that the butler's name was Wilkie...
Most great writers leave the assertion of their place in literature to their disciples; some confidently speak out for themselves. One such was the late, great William Butler Yeats.*Another is literature's most famed contemporary exile. Novelist Thomas Mann. The February number of Atlantic Monthly published a speech by Author Mann, in which he speaks of himself and his work with confidence and authority...
Columbia's 80-year-old Nicholas Murray Butler called progressive education a nasty name: "the rabbit system of education." Said President Butler in his 41st annual report...