Word: butlering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rolled up his sleeves. He waded into his onetime friend James E. Davidson, president of Nebraska Power, dubbed the power-directors "highly subsidized dummies" of absentee landlords. Davidson's minions snapped back with the ridiculous charge that Doorly was a "Communist." Then Omaha's Mayor Dan B. Butler stepped in. He appointed a power commission, offered $40,680,000 for the property. Five days later this move was blocked by an injunction halting operations of the Mayor's commission. Myers watched these maneuvers with the experienced eye of an old campaigner, accustomed to the gouging & kneeing...
...pseudonym of Frank O'Connor, he published several novels and plays, some verse, a biography of Irish Revolutionary Michael Collins, and a host of short stories that critics have called the best in Ireland since James Joyce's Dubliners. "O'Connor," said the late great William Butler Yeats, "is doing for Ireland what Chekov did for Russia...
Kiss the Blood off My Hands was published by Jarrolds in England in 1940, shortly before Jarrolds was bombed out in the blitz. It was the first novel of 37-year-old Gerald Butler, a onetime chemist who is now director of an advertising firm, and it sold 232,000 copies. He has since written three more novels...
Long before the decade's most famous book title was lifted from this lyric, the poems of Ernest Christopher Dowson were a part of the established pattern of English poetry-"not speech, but perfect song," said Dowson's late, great contemporary, William Butler Yeats. But about the poet himself the mists of time and faded memoirs had drawn close. Little but his friend Arthur Symons' brief, exquisite biographical essay had preserved the memory of the Mauve Decade's most desperately romantic life...
...Cornwall, the miracle happens. Her new butler William (Cecil Kellaway) has a friend and master hiding in the vicinity who has been using her bed and building fancies about her portrait. This vagabond lover (Arturo de Cordova) is a Frenchman with a taste for Ronsard, tabac and sketching seabirds. He is also wonderfully handsome and softspoken, and he thrills her with his talk of being free, free, a law unto himself. He manages this by piracy, robbing the rich and giving generously to the poor. Stimulated by this philosophic man of action, Lady St. Columb begins to act like...