Word: footmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary." Since he became so busy, Lord Beaverbrook has stopped giving big dinners, now has a few aircraft men to dinner once or twice a week. When he tells them they have done "first rate" they glow. Dinner at Stornoway House (13 Cleveland Row, London) is served by four footmen at 9 or 10 o'clock. Sometimes the host is late, sometimes he doesn't appear. Some times he rushes in for the soup course, dashes out, returns with an Air Marshal. After dinner he sinks into a big blue chair, turns a spotlight on himself, leaving...