Word: butlerian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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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