Word: footmanned
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...Connecticut Avenue, Washington, is to be sold. Sir Esme Howard, who recently made the announcement, said: "When I walk through these rooms the building seems to reproach me." And well it might; for however dingy it looks from the outside, the interior is indeed beautiful and imposing. A liveried footman opens the door and in front is a heavy blue carpeted hall or reception room with a massive staircase to the rear, down which Queen Victoria, seated, gazes from the enormous dimensions of a gilt frame. To the left are two drawing rooms and the ballroom. To the right...
...with a head something like Franz Liszt's portraits-the same high forehead, eagle nose and long gray hair. The audience burst into applause. . . The little man put his feet together and clasped his hands and bowed stiffly from the waist, looking very like the frog footman in Alice as he did so. The audience kept on applauding and he kept on bowing. . . . Then he sat down and began to play Beethoven's Pathetic Sonata...
Disregarding " social" nonsense, Mr. and Mrs. Ford built their permanent home on the banks of the Rouge in Dearborn, where they were boy and girl lovers together?in sight of the cottage where they dreamed the future together. The house is large, not pretentious; there are servants, but the footman does not laugh up his sleeve while " Mr. Ford takes the jackets off his potatoes boiled-with-the-skin-on." Over the fireplace is inscribed: " Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice...
...before. Forty-five colleges sent delegates, and among the speakers were such prominent men as President Eliot and Dean Briggs of the University, Walter Lippmann, and editor of "The New Republic", Edwin F. Ladd, the non-partisan League senator from North Dakota, Francis Nelson. Editor of "The Footman", and Civil Liberties Bureau. More than 500 H. N. Mac Cracken'05, President of the people were present at the dinner on Saturday night, and an equally large number attended the luncheon on Sunday afternoon...
...Thaxter Billy Beales-Brown, her son, a Harvard undergraduate, R. F. Duncan '12 Miss Wilton, of Boston, Miss Caroline Solis Mr. Henry Madison, an elderly Bostonian, A. M. Hay '14 Mabel, a maid, Miss Marian Blackall Berthe, a French maid, Miss Esther Woodbury Butler, H. A. Van Landingham Higgins, footman, J. H. Lord '14 Jason, footman, J. K. Hodges '14 Jinjo, buttons, E. L. G. Hackes '14 Bridge-players, Miss Caroline Dudley, Miss Louie Hodge, Miss Mary B. Reed...