Word: footmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King's Household will be discussed under the chairmanship of one of the blue-coated (senior) servants of the household, as distinguished from the red-coated (junior) servants. The union has also joined up with the London Trades Council, and one of the King's footmen has been selected as the delegate to the L.T.C...
...flattering air of respect and, even of rapture." A well-meaning aunt gave lectures on the social impossibility of otherwise well-meaning people who pronounced girl as gurl. There were ancestral ghosts in Tudor or Jacobean chambers, and the spectacle of daily prayers, attended by a long line of footmen and housemaids, "seemingly well-drilled as a corps de ballet." Big-eyed, the little Sitwells took everything in. Their world was almost as special as their scarlet tree...
...Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Marlborough House some 200 of George's 235 footmen, valets, cooks and pages joined the Civil Servants Union en masse. They demanded better pay, a cost-of-living bonus and equal status with other government employes. The Government, responsible for paying the King's help, promptly offered a 30-shilling increase, but the servants turned it down flat. Their bargaining position is strong-for months now toothy Lieut. Colonel, the Honorable Sir Piers Legh, Master of His Majesty's Household, has been scrabbling through London's employment agencies begging...
Isabella received Minister Sickles in her negligee, her huge breasts half-bare, her mane of hair hanging down to her waist. She had had as many men in her life as Sickles had had women-an indiscriminate series of ambassadors, footmen, Italian tenors, cabinet ministers, army privates. Sickles and Isabella reacted like magnet and iron. As a sop to convention, Isabella forthwith converted him to Catholicism, arranged for him a marriage of convenience with one of her ladies in waiting. In Madrid they began to call him "Yankee King of Spain." It was all very perplexing to his friends back...
...know what people were wearing in America. ... It ... might have been Paris, or London, or New York - any place where you find those inter nationals who are still interested in inter national fashion, gossip and an international way of life. The setting was beautiful. Shining silver, crystal, well-groomed footmen, candlelight, soft music. The women were dressed with taste, with charm...