Word: footmen
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...teau Frontenac, served up lobster tails, grilled breast of chicken and a Grand Marnier soufflé which neither the King nor the Queen accepted. This instance of royal distaste had the mimicking lunchers floored for the moment, but the King's personal, scarlet-clad footmen signaled to the Château's blue-uniformed corps (one for every two guests) that the rest might partake of the soufflé without offense...
Last week Williamsburg's third festival opened in the palace's candlelit ballroom. Guests were escorted from their carriages by pantalooned footmen carrying candle lanterns. Eight evenings of 18th-Century music for "Harpsichord, Hautboy, Violins and Violoncello" were scheduled. At week's end 20th-Century visitors were unconsciously bowing and reaching for their snuffboxes...
...Lieut. O'Bannon, U. S. Marines, Midshipman Pascal Peck, U. S. Navy, a Marine non-commissioned officer, six Marine privates, 25 cannoneers (including three officers), 38 Greeks (including two officers), Hamet, a friendly Arab, and 90 men, an Arabian cavalry detachment under Sheik El Tahik and about 200 footmen and camel drivers, 107 camels and a few asses...
...Singer Sargent at 30 in a black shawl. The portrait caused so much talk that she had it put away. That was about the only time she ever bowed to public opinion. She traveled abroad more than anyone else in Boston, bought more dazzling gowns, had more servants and footmen, consorted with actors, artists, musicians, acquired matched pearls by the pint and wore one string around her waist. Once, asked for a subscription to the Charitable Eye & Ear Infirmary, she replied that she had not known there was a charitable eye or ear in Boston. She drank beer...
...booted footmen sprang up behind, the coachman cracked his whip, and out through Grosvenor Gate the coach rolled, to smack into collision with a lumbering scarlet omnibus. With one horse streaming blood, the coach careened wildly up Park Lane at a dead run. White-faced but resolute, Sir George Sidney Clive, D. S. 0. bounced about. There was a second collision near the corner by the Marble Arch with an evil-smelling sweeper's cart, wrenching a wheel off the coach. Shaken but uninjured the Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps descended from his rehearsal...