Word: salver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guard glimpses of world leaders playing at the game of war: "The Prime Minister's valet came into my bedroom and said: 'The Prime Minister's compliments, and the German armies have invaded Russia.' Thereupon he presented me with a large cigar on a silver salver...
...have occurred at Ernie's, when six fashionable San Franciscans ordered a rack of lamb, then got so thoroughly marinated in martinis that they couldn't eat the meat. Home with the host went the entire roast, with all its trimmings, foil-wrapped on a silver salver...
...crucial dinner party at which Chamberlain, "the most important and impressive guest," was expounding on Ireland. "Only one detail was going wrong," writes Beaverbrook. "The butler was obviously tight." Furiously, their hostess scribbled a note and handed it to the butler, who put it "on a big and beautiful salver and, walking unsteadily to Austen Chamberlain, with a deep bow presented the message." It read: "You are drunk-leave the room at once...