Word: butlerhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, Lady Rothermere, handsome wife of the London Daily Mail's publisher, gravely discussed a particularly distressing shortage in austere England: "The days of the old English butler are finished," she told Manhattan Gossipist Charles Ventura. The time has passed when young footmen, who normally graduate to butlerhood, "take . . . pride in their profession; they won't take the time to learn it. When this generation dies out, there won't be any new crop...
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