Word: keeper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shortly before Boccaccio wrote the Decameron, Datini never knew the terrors of high explosives and concentration camps, let alone the menace of the atomic bomb. In their place he had the Black Death, tyranny, piracy, the ruthless brutality of mercenary armies. He was the son of a Prato tavern-keeper; by wise trading and prudent investment over a period of 32 years, he became rich enough to build his international business...
When asked why they keep the memory of Holmes alive year after year, Douglas Lawson, Keeper of the Band, replied, "Memory! Memory, my dear fellow: the great man is still very much alive, aged 103, and raising bees in Sussex...
...detestable"), the Kremlin ("quite insignificant"). Angry, this mind spewed along. Max Beerbohm said, "like a Roman river full of baskets and dead cats"; fixed, it set in hard grooves. "I suppose," said Beerbohm, on hearing that Belloc had witnessed cricket, "he would have said that the only good wicket-keeper in the history of the game was a Frenchman and a Roman Catholic...
...Twin's Keeper. In Columbus, Ind., when Twins Avery and Joe Fred Miller were fined $25 each for drunk driving in separate cars, Joe Fred protested to the judge that he was only trying to pass Avery and slow him down "so he wouldn't get into trouble...
...perform every minute function: the royal chief steward came along to oversee the seasoning of the King's food; a compass-bearer kept track of the direction of Mecca for the five daily prayer rituals of the King; there was a royal barber, a coffee-brewer, a keeper of the royal jewels. One man, Abdullah Balkhair, handled the press for the King as a sort of Jim Hagerty in sheik's clothing...