Word: footman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...window, just tell him there's a lotta kids out here wanta see him 'n take pichas, please..." The door is shut on their pleading. "Are you going to tell Blake he's got fans outside?" an uninitiated bystander asks. The tall toothy club member playing footman at the door raises his Aryan eyebrows. "Are you kidding?" he laughs shortly, a watchdog bark. Kitty would never have made it through that door...
Rose's fear is enough to strike dread into the Bellamys, who know their patrician comfort depends on a skilled corps of servants. Eaton Place may be home to the Bellamys, but it belongs to their servants: Mr. Hudson, Mrs. Bridges, Footman Edward and, of course, Rose, whom Actress Jean Marsh has made into the most fetching cockney sparrow since George Bernard Shaw detached a rib called Eliza Doolittle...
Captain George Walsh said the increase in sergeants lessens the need for patrolmen, since sergeants drive cars and can cover more ground than patrolmen. Letteri said, however, that there is "nothing like a footman." "You can have your cars. Footmen stop trouble before it happens. When a patrolman leaves the force, he should be replaced by another patrolman," he said...
...lying more difficult, but not impossible. Indeed one of the charges on which Dwight Chapin was convicted was for his claimed failure to remember details of his dealings with Political Saboteur Donald Segretti. The legal theory traces back to the Queen's case in 1820, in which a footman was suspected of having had a lengthy affair with Queen Caroline. Questioned about the matter, a fellow servant in a position to know claimed that he did not remember. The Lord Chancellor ruled he could be convicted of perjury if the court reasonably concluded he should have remembered. Thereupon...
...acts of Paul Robeson's Othello. Hopeless production but I like his great black booby face." Waugh also noted disapprovingly that Poet Edith Sitwell and her family lived on terms of "feudal familiarity" with their servants. "Come on, one of you's got to go," said the footman, trying to persuade Edith or her reluctant brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell, to go upstairs to visit their mother. After lunching at the Ritz with Noel Coward, Waugh commented: "He has a simple, friendly nature. No brains and a theatrical manner...