Word: butlering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leading the team in batting is John Butler, playing third, whose average is now an even .400. He has hit three circuit clouts, and is steady and reliable in the field...
Birthdays. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia, "trying to get my golf score down to my age," his 79th. William Henry Jackson, gimlet-eyed pioneer photographer, still toting a camera, his 98th. Cinemactress Bette Davis, present with Governor Blood of New Hampshire, Governor Willis of Vermont, Senator Bridges of New Hampshire, some 10,000 others, at the world premiere of her latest picture, The Great Lie, in Littleton, N.H., her 33rd...
Last week Columbia University's money-minded President Nicholas Murray Butler blurted a worry. "War conditions," he told newsmen on his 79th birthday, had already cost his university "several hundred thousand dollars" in tuition fees. Butler and his fellow presidents knew that worse was yet to come...
...tricks-an invisible person startling the other characters by smoking a cigaret, rowing a boat, opening a door. Some is fair comedy-Roland Young's befuddled resignation to a world of phantoms and foul play; the friendly insolence of Eddie Anderson (Radio Comic Jack Benny's radio butler, Rochester Van Jones). All of it is hokum, tried & true...
Germany's most profitable export in 1940 was the New Order. In London last week solemn, 38-year-old Richard Austen Butler, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, told Britain's House of Commons what it cost five European nations annually to feed and house Adolf Hitler's armies of occupation. The figures came from published reports of the German Government, except in the case of The Netherlands, where, said Britain's Butler, they must be treated with reserve. The bill...