Word: footman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...definite about the U. S., past or present. Most interesting of the historical designs is Avery Johnson's spirited winter scene for Bordentown, N. J., which shows Joseph Bonaparte, ex-King of Spain, who settled on the Delaware River after his brother Napoleon's downfall, watching his footman distribute largess to skaters on his private pond...
...Palace when he tried to heave a pillow over, last week raised another ruckus. When his parents left for the wedding of Princess Irene of Greece and the Duke of Spoleto in Florence, he wanted to go too, had to be respectfully carried back into the palace by a footman...
Duke: "My footman asked me this very morning for a vertical increase...
...emphasizing women's treachery in The Decline and Fall. But at least one woman paid him back with interest when she told a story of Gibbon, middleaged, burdened with gout and fat, getting down on his knees to a pretty female novelist and having to call a footman to put him on his feet again. Her other story was of the time, in a Paris salon, when a blind woman ran her hand over Gibbon's inexplicable face, backed up declaring indignantly that a mean trick was being played...
...enough to keep the Hudson from flooding when nine couldn't tame the Mississippi, when a shifty looking automobile slithered up to the curve beside us. It was the kind of a car that proves that she doesn't drive a Dusenberg because she had a chauffeur, a footman, and a lapdog to drive it for her. With proper ceremony she descended, but her triumphal sweep through the bronze portals of the store was cut short by two ex-Grand Dukes, clad in full regimentals, who guarded and barred the way. And they pointed as if saluting in review...