Word: footmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modern times, it was to an Austrian castle of theirs that Edward VIII went after abdicating; and it was upon the Rothschild fortune that the incoming Nazis trained a covetous eye. With steel-helmeted SS men, pistols drawn, two yards from his table. Baron Louis ate lunch amid footmen and sauces, used the fingerbowl after fruit, enjoyed his cigarette, took his heart medicine, approved the next day's menu, and went into custody. When they invaded France the Nazis looted 4,000 "major art items'' from various Rothschild mansions. When reassembled after World War II, the collection...
...boardinghouse, 17 U.S. Presidents have taken their ease amid the salt air and rarefied society of Newport, R.I. So upper-crusty was Newport in the old days that, according to local legend. President Millard Fillmore was snubbed not only by the town's residents but by its footmen as well. Last week John Kennedy, enjoying the first real rest of his nine months in office, became Newport's 18th resident President...
...turn, Paris turned itself inside out for Jackie Kennedy. An escort of plumed horsemen clattered alongside her limousine as it drew up to the palace, and white-stockinged footmen, right out of a Mozart opera, lined the stairs. In the Chambre de la Reine, Jackie slept in a bed just vacated by Belgium's Queen Fabiola, bathed in a silver mosaic tub that had been installed for Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, and gazed up at a ceiling swarming with Napoleonic cherubs. At the first formal reception, more than 2,000 top-ranking Parisians sloshed through the rainy night...
Sicilian Snopes. Like an embalmed pharaoh, Don Fabrizio is surrounded by his possessions, from powdered footmen to Murano chandeliers, from silver soup tureens to gold-flecked frescoes. When a soldier of the risorgimento turns up in Don Fabrizio's garden to remind him of the passions of the dispossessed, the prince gives his pet great Dane some conservative advice ("One never achieves anything by going bang! bang!'') and retreats to his telescope to contemplate the snobbish quietude of the stars...
...author, who was born into a wealthy St. Petersburg family, recalls with admiration the pre-Revolution pastime of his favorite uncle, who used to lie in bed with a .22 pistol and shoot flies which gathered on the ceiling to eat the jam he had smeared there. Footmen stood by, Sanders recalls, with champagne, ammunition and more jam. After his family fled to England, Sanders easily withstood a British public-school education (Brighton College), got a job with a South American cigarette company, but was thrown out when he pinked his mistress' fiancé in a revolver duel...