Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tuesday from 10 Downing Street: "The Prime Minister has tonight been admitted to the King Edward VII Hospital for an operation for prostatic obstruction. It is expected that this will involve his absence from official duties for some weeks, and he has asked the First Secretary, Mr. R. A. Butler, to take charge of the government while he is away...
...When Mailer asks himself if "Mary" has succeeded in writing a good novel about her odory heroines.... the answer is that she came just far enough to irritate the life out of us... She get just so far symbolically as the episode in one of her scenes where the butler comes in to whieper to his mistress that the child of the visiting lady has had an unfortunate accident in his pants. Yes, Mary deposited a lead on the promise, and it has to be washed all over again...
...Haughty Margot Asquith called it "squalid," Lloyd George's wife would not move in until adequate plumbing was installed. During the blitz, Churchill complained that it was "shaky." One ancient boiler heated both Nos. 10 and 11, residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, leading then-Chancellor Rab Butler to complain that when Churchill set the thermostat in the 70s or 80s, he, Butler, was being "fried alive...
Reginald Maudling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has been an outstanding exponent of the "new Conservative party," and seemed likely to lead it, but his power faded after not receiving timely support from Macmillan. The apparent front runner at the moment is Richard A. Butler, the Deputy Prime Minister...
Another potential Conservative leader is Lord Hailsham, the Minister of Science. Hailsham and Butler, however, are identified more with the "old" Conservatives, Safran said, and it will be harder for them to build the image of vitality and youth which the party seeds in order...