Word: butlerian
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Butler currently leads the Ivy League in scoring with 18 points per game, but only tallied eight this weekend. The forward starter shot a meager--by Butlerian standards, anyway--23 percent from the field...
...former employer: Mr. Antony Armstrong-Jones, an ex-photographer and present husband of Princess Margaret. On a double-truck spread in the weekly People, Cronin poured out the reasons he left his royal job after only 25 days at Tony and Meg's Kensington Palace residence. With butlerian unctuousness, Cronin declares that the exposé is for him "a painful task" but necessary to preserve the "dignity of the royal family and my own reputation...
...being March, and the Butlerian cycles being immutable, the ewe lamb is confidently expected to arrive in Augusta this week...
...offshoot of the Young Visiters school of narrative. The artless (though at times somewhat labored) account of the supposedly autobiographical butler in service with many of the "Nobility and Gentry." These latter may quite conceivably learn with pain some of the things that go on behind the traditionally imperturbable butlerian countenance. No Admirable Crichton this, however, to transform them. Rather, he gazes upon them and philosophizes, mildly-but inwardly. Thus, of the nouveaux riches: "They may spend their money giving fetes, parties, balls, and use every device to get into society, or what is left of it, but all their...
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