Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protocol made working for a living unthinkable, and Tony had no wealth of his own, so Parliament upped his wife's allowance from $16,800 to $42,000, and Tony had to move into one of his in-laws' houses on the grounds of Kensington Palace. The butler promptly quit and told all, complaining that Tony was far too democratic for any royal servant to work for. To keep busy around the house while his wife was out working at her royal duties, Tony designed and built an elaborate balsa-wood model of an aviary for the London...
Britain's famed public schools have long believed in the efficacy of corporal punishment (during this century at Eton, boys were held by two of their schoolmates over a flogging block to be beaten by teachers). The present Home Secretary, R.A.B. Butler, is on record "in favor of parents using the cane" on their offspring. A recent Gallup poll showed that 70% of British men, and a whopping 76% of British women, urge the flogging of young criminal offenders. Said a dejected British doctor: "Instead of feeling a sense of horror on hearing of some father brutally belting...
Last month Lawyer Paul Butler, a Catholic and former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, appealed the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Butler saw it as "an opportunity which may never come again to enlighten the President, the Congress, the States, the bench, the bar, the school authorities, the private educators and the country as a whole, as to what the First Amendment permits or prohibits in the form of direct financial payments of public funds to sectarian schools or to their pupils." Last week the Supreme Court refused to review the Vermont decision; the net effect, politically...
...quality that came to be called "bankability" in Hollywood's nervous '50s. For 36 years-a longer span than even Gable's-he was the gaunt good man who did what he had to do. He turned down the fattest male film part ever written-Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind-because he thought he "wasn't quite that dashing," and felt bad about playing the middle-aged rake in Love in the Afternoon. He was right: the Virginian would have thrashed a man who treated Audrey Hepburn that...
What's more, G.W.T.W. has a grand, simpleminded, 19th century story to tell and a gallery of splendid theatrical caricatures to display. Gable never in later movies topped his performance as Rhett Butler, the man of iron with a heart of caramel. Vivien Leigh, though she seldom shows the tigerish vitality that Author Mitchell wrote into her Scarlett O'Hara, nevertheless makes a fascinating, green-eyed bitch-kitty. And Hattie McDaniel, as Scarlett's hammy old mammy, just about waddles off with the show...