Word: footmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowds around Sweden's 84-year-old King Gustaf Adolf when he walks alone through the streets. A man passing him will take off his hat with a slight bow, whereupon the King will remove his hat and bow politely in return. At state dinners, the footmen behind every other chair are restaurant waiters hired just for the occasion. Sweden is the kind of kingdom where the leader of the Communist Party, resplendent in white tie and tails, enjoys dining with the King-despite the fact that he is the country's only political leader who says...
Ready Blood. On the big day itself, the practical Dutch were taking no chances. For the first time in its 66 years of service, the coach had a special brake, and the eight liveried footmen with it were really detectives in bulletproof vests. Some 8,000 policemen and soldiers lined the official route from the Palace on the Dam to the Town Hall, to the ancient Dutch Reformed Westerkerk, and back to the palace. And a hospital was standing by with a special supply of 250 pints of blood, carefully matched to the blood types of every royal guest...
...Joan Sutherland left Sidney as an unknown typist. Last week she returned home as La Stupenda, heading her own opera company, with 145 members, for a four-week tour of Australia. Melbourne proudly put on its best bib and tucker for the local girl who made good. Bewigged footmen in period costume bowed as they opened the doors of Rolls-Royces, Bentleys, Jaguars and Daimlers for elegant women wearing chinchilla and diamond tiaras, distinguished men in white tie and tails as they passed through the chilly Australian winter night into Her Majesty's Theater. The glittering audience that...
...Stroheim's 1925 The Merry Widow; of a stroke; in Woodland Hills, Calif. In love with her own publicity, she was a prototype and prisoner of stardom-"the girl with the bee-stung lips," who rode around in a gold-fitted Rolls, with sable rugs and liveried footmen, waltzed through four marriages and squandered $3,000,000 in the space of eight years. "I shall dance to my grave," she once said. She never made it in the talkies, and died alone and dependent on the Motion Picture Relief Fund...
Granger said that the police have an extra car and two additional footmen patrolling the Radcliffe area every night. "But the big problem," he added, "is that the girls don't pull down their shades. You can look into their rooms after dark and see them doing all sorts of indiscreet things...