Word: footmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the living-room mantle, as in a shrine, hangs a portrait of Woodrow Wil son, by Sir William Orpen, perhaps the best portrait of Wilson ever made. In the ballroom, in pre-rationing days, he some times dined as many as 96 people, to the accompaniment of footmen in bright blue livery...
...born Lady Decies, 71, was worried about manpower. She had skipped back to her native land from her $4-million, 50-room Paris snuggery in 1940 after some 30 years abroad. "How soon do you think the war will be over?" she asked Philadelphia reporters last week. Footmen had always carried her Paris guests from curb to door in sedan chairs, she said, and now-"With one more year of war, there wouldn't be an able-bodied man left in France. . . . God knows who's going to carry my guests...
...laudanum for paregoric," nearly died from the fright of his mistake. In 1890 he shifted to his uncle's drugstore in Chicago and saw a new world he despised. "The 'filthy rich' drove behind high-stepping horses drawing ornate equipages from which tall-hatted coachmen and footmen surveyed their surroundings with a truly devastating scorn." For three years Harold Ickes glared at "the intangible ingredients out of which a careful architect was to build a robust curmudgeonly character." He learned to mix Seidlitz powders in such a way that a glassful would explode "into the nostrils...
...very annoyed with the Barbary pirates, who kept nibbling at U. S. trade in the Mediterranean. William Eaton, a Connecticut schoolteacher, and Presley O'Bannon, a lady-loving, fiddle-playing marine, raised an army of eight marines, 38 Greeks, 91 Arabs, a few footmen, cavalry, and camel drivers, and planned a fantastic march from the Nile across 500 miles of desert to subdue the Barbary pirate chief at Dérna. They actually made the march and took the town. Presley O'Bannon was the first man to raise the U. S. flag on African soil...
Revolutionary days will come back to Harvard Square tomorrow night when two positions of costumed Harvard and Radcliffe students, sparked by liveried, bewigged footmen, will set out for a Faneuil Hall meeting, sponsored by the Council for Democracy. The meeting is scheduled for 7:45 o'clock and will be broadcast by the Colonial Network...