Word: majordomo
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...cotton-gloved hand, Archbishop Söderblom walked to the edge of the nearby lake, stepped gingerly in the stern-sheets of the very small rowboat and sat down next to Count Magnus' nephew, Baron Friedrich von Essen (no Brahe, but heir to the Brahe estates). The silk-hatted, saturnine Majordomo of Castle Skokloster took the oars. While Sweden's King watched from the shore, Bishop, Baron and Majordomo rowed to the middle of the lake and plop went...
Month ago Archduchess Isabella's suave Majordomo scouted rumors that the Archduke Albrecht was thinking of marrying one Frau Kallay who was getting a divorce, broadly hinted that she would become his mistress. This of course would not have affected his candidacy?a King may look, and more than look, at a wench. But to her horror Archduchess Isabella discovered that her son was resolved to marry the woman, had set his heart on her as stubbornly as Franz Ferdinand fixed his on Sophie Chotek...
Born. To Marchesa Maria Luisa Persichetti Ugolini, niece of Pope Pius XI; a daughter, Maria Rio Pia. His Holiness sent his majordomo with blessings for his grandniece and namesake...
...last week was King Alfonso's flat refusal to receive a deputation of three former Prime Ministers,* who asked for an audience in order that they might jointly urge upon His Majesty "the imperative need for some modification of the dictatorship." They were informed by the palace majordomo, the Duque de Miranda, that "the King is loath to intervene in the present situation...
There was another Mr. Hoover present -Mr. Ike Hoover, White House majordomo this many a year. Mr. President conferred with Mr. Major Domo. At length he said, "Well, go ahead then." There was a general winking and cocking of the eyes of the press. The ears got ready again, too. Mr. President noticed them and said: "I don't believe in that. I'm not going to talk any more...