Word: footmanned
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...wait three years. Off he went to wait, pathetically telling all to the patient Lady Mount-Temple and her husband. If Rosie were to love another, he wrote, "I would do all for her - bear - if it were necessary -to see them together all day - be their footman and walk behind them - nay - be their servant after they were married - if they needed it - I don't think her father loves her so well as that." He and Rosie, who kept stalling him off, never married. Instead, they grew mad together. She deteriorated more quickly; the years before...
Founded by Hugh Mason and William Fortnum, a footman to Queen Anne, the store has been, in fact, a running footnote to British history. Fortnum's supplied Wellington's officers with hams and butter during the Napoleonic Wars and shipped 250 Ibs. of concentrated beef tea to Florence Nightingale and her wounded in the Crimea. At home, Fortnum picnic hampers have always been de rigueur fare at Derby Day, Eton-Harrow cricket matches or an Oxford-Cambridge boat race. Dickens praised Fortnum's provender, and Benjamin Disraeli, after a hard day in Parliament...
...complexion of the marriage changed after Bonaparte returned a national hero, besieged by well-wishers and idolized by women ("Genius has no sex!" cried Madame de Stael, trying to rush past a startled footman to surprise Bonaparte in his bath). Threatened with divorce, Josephine meekly settled down to the role of dutiful wife...
...survive in the feudal splendor they enjoyed when Germany was a patchwork of petty principalities. In Franconia, convivial Count Franz Erbach presides over three family castles (one is kept for hunting parties); at dinner, his liveried chief huntsman stations himself behind the count's chair to summon a footman whenever his mas ter's wineglass is empty. Prince Emich zu Leiningen, 36, whose escutcheon is at least 880 years old, is a globe-trotting big-game hunter who honed his marksmanship as a youth by taking potshots at family portraits in his handsome baroque palace at Amorbach...
...footman is all but gone in Newport, R.I.-the golden day when it took some 30 servants to run a summer "cottage," when the Sunday lunch table was set for 250 as a matter of course, and creeping socialism was represented by the 16th Amendment, empowering the Government to levy an income tax. Another knell tolled for those high and far-off times last week as the auctioneer's hammer fell on the contents of The Elms, one of the last of the great houses that were still homes-until the death a year ago of Miss Julia Berwind...