Word: footmanned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...businessmen in São Paulo, owner of vast coffee plantations, a student of economics and diplomacy, the kind of man who wears comfortable and badly wrinkled linen suits, is not interested in social functions and rides to his office in full state behind a chauffeur and a liveried footman...
...roll of carpet under his arm, Candidate Reynolds described the spectacle of Senator Morrison driving up in his Rolls-Royce to the entrance of the Mayflower Hotel in Washington. "And when he gets down out of his Rolls auto-moe-bile," boomed Bob Rey nolds, "Cam's footman takes this here roll of carpet like this - " Whist! Reynolds unrolled the carpet on the platform, strutted across it pompously to the imaginary doorway of the Mayflower. "And do you know," roared Reynolds, "what he eats in that there hotel? He eats caw-vee-yah! Do you folks know what...
Such defense mollified in no way one of the show pieces of Manhattan medicine, Dr. Bernard Sachs, 78, longtime professor of clinical neurology at Columbia University. Years ago, a Manhattan legend goes, when Professor Sachs called upon patients, his footman would accompany him to the bedside, hold his high hat during examination of the patient. At last week's meeting Neurologist Sachs rose to charge: "Psychoanalysis more often prolongs and engenders mental disorder than it cures it. No person who has undergone the treatment can ever be entirely normal mentally again. It is a disruptive and not a constructive...
...circumstances of Albert's death were such as to breed ugly stories. Albert left his footman at 2 p. m. saying he would return in an hour. When he failed to return after several hours, the frightened footman did not think to step into a telephone booth at nearby Marche-les- Dames. Instead, with an impulse toward secrecy, he drove a long way to the chateau of Count Anton de Wiart, and from there telephoned the royal palace at Brussels. The two court officials who got the message drove out to Marche-les-Dames to search for the King...
...summary: HARVARD '37 YALE '37 White, Stephenson, r.f. r.f., Leeds, Carey, Michaels, Wind Moser, Gibson, l.f. l.f., Byrnes, Beckwith Gray, Adlis, Schuler, c. c., Pierson, McNoeley, Morton Stephenson, Field, Witherspoon, r.g. r.g., Miles, Footman Mason, Lewis, l.g. l.g., Wright, Kelley, Havilend...