Word: footmanned
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This Alice-in-Wonderland atmosphere was thickened by the mixture of formality and laxity that prevailed at court. No one dined with the Queen without invitation -but this might come in the form of a cockney footman's brisk bark to a roomful of ladies-in-waiting: "All what's 'ere dines with the Queen." Ponsonby was not allowed to smoke, even when decoding dispatches in his own room; the stench, complained the Queen, permeated the papers. But, on occasion, footmen and Highland servants could get so drunk that a royal dinner was punctuated by .the crash...
...brought down a pigeon with a fine 100-ft. wing shot. That afternoon, pulling off his boots, George VI said contentedly to his shooting companions: "It's been a very good day's sport, gentlemen. I will expect you here at 9 o'clock on Thursday." Footman Daniel Long, who took a cup of cocoa to the King at 11 p.m. and found him in bed reading a sportsman's magazine, was the last person to see the King alive...
...title by the brisk expedient of "buying off ten claimants, three genuine." He is a blithe-spirited cross between Machiavelli and the Medici, and a lover of beauty in the form of small boys; his villa on the hill is staffed by a butler of eleven and a footman of ten. But the duke can remember days when he was better served: "When I came here first, they used to love me for my money. Now, I fear, they love my money...
...host. The wine they admire, he knows will not "travel." Wheedled out of him and carted home, it tastes like vinegar. The villa's glittering bathrooms are tiled with condescending instructions: "Press handle down, hold for one minute and release with a slight jerk." The ten-year-old footman has been taught to speed departing guests with the final salute: "You-goddamned-son-of-a-bitch...
...individual entrants was Mrs. Loula Long Combs, 70, who has taken blue ribbons at every one of her National showings since her first in 1913. Rounding the show ring in her red-wheeled phaeton, with her smartly liveried footman sitting behind her on the dickey and her docked, high-stepping horses trotting in perfect rhythm, she took the harness pairs class, celebrated her 54th year of competition by winning eight other events in the hackney horse and pony classes...