Word: butlers
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...true about Madame H.P. (for Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky and what is almost certainly false, there is a perilous region of mists and myths. The dominant truth about H.P.B. was that she founded and was chief illusionist for the Theosophical Society, a spiritualist sect that influenced the poetry of William Butler Yeats and the thinking of Jawaharlal Nehru, and helped to revive the consciousness of India...
...propped up by a docile servant class, whose images occupy some of the book's most haunting pages. The bride of the second son of the first Baron Leconfield, for instance, undertook to photograph "all the dear servants at Petworth, 1860, when I came there." They include the butler, the underbutler, the park keeper, the keeper of the stallions, the coachman, the housekeeper. Lord Leconfield's valet, Lady Leconfield's maid, the French cook, the first groom of the chambers, and so on. Big houses often had as many as 50 people working downstairs. Yet strange...
BORN. To David Halberstam, 46, Pulitzer-prizewinning Viet Nam correspondent for the New York Times and bestselling author of The Best and the Brightest and The Powers That Be, and his second wife, Jean Sandness Butler, 33, former Times style-section reporter: a daughter, their first child; in New York City. Name: Julia Sandness. Weight...
Excellent poets (Dryden, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Masefield), as well as bad ones, have served as poet laureate, yet the job has virtually never called forth any verse more memorable than the sort of decoratively obsequious doggerel that a well-educated butler might compose. The most enduringly dreadful lines were penned by the spellbound and earnest Alfred Austin in the late 19th century. Austin, author of "Leszko the Bastard, a Tale of Polish Grief," auditioned for the laureate's post with a marvelously stupefying couplet on the illness of the Prince of Wales: "Across the wires the electric message came...
...date the U.S. hostages were seized in Tehran-for having draped an anti-Shah banner from the Statue of Liberty. Police arrested a postal employee, Tyrone Frazier, 31, who admitted that he had accepted $200 from Salahuddin for the use of his Jeep, and also Horace Butler, 35, another alleged accomplice...