Word: chamberlaine
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With the governess' help, Naundorff enlisted Louis XVI's last Minister of Justice and a former Lord Chamberlain on his side. Then one night in a Paris street, Naundorff was attacked and left bleeding from six knife wounds...
Francis Patrick Matthews, who had made no splash in 15 months in office, is a mild-looking and prosperous Omaha lawyer, a good Democrat, a prominent Roman Catholic layman (a Papal Chamberlain with Cape and Sword), and a dedicated and fervent antiCommunist. One of the things he is not is a military strategist (he admitted, when he became Secretary, that his knowledge of naval affairs was confined to operating a rowboat). As Navy Secretary, he had apparently got to thinking of the danger of being Pearl...
...Statesman's position as a kind of Chamberlain-of-the-left has endeared it to pacifist-minded intellectuals and greying Socialists who loved Russia in their youth, but it raises the hackles of most leaders of the Labor Party. When Prime Minister Clement Attlee was asked what publication he most disliked, he snapped: "The New Statesman...
...engagement to Walter Francis John ("Johnny") Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Earl of Dalkeith and heir to the Duke of Buccleuch, Margaret began to be squired about by young-man-about-town William ("Billy") Wallace, son of the late Captain Euan Wallace, M.P. and Minister of Transport in Neville Chamberlain's government...
...Century taxpayers, one of the world's least esthetic individuals is the faceless Moloch known to them only by his title, the Collector of Internal Revenue. But officials in the art-loving, 13th Century Italian republic of Siena were tax collectors of a different sort. When the camarlingo (chamberlain) completed his six months' term, he had his parchment records bound between two wooden panels, and commissioned some of the republic's most eminent artists to decorate the covers with tempera paintings. In Florence's Strozzina Gallery last week, some examples of such fancied-up account books...