Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well, that "it is really underlings who are to blame." For example, an unusual British Foreign Secretary had some overseas friends stopping with him in the latter years of George V's reign, and wanted to take them along to a State Dinner at Buckingham Palace. His civil servant secretary told him he would have to write and ask the U. S. Embassy to nominate these guests officially and in so doing assume responsibility for their behavior and character. This note the Minister of the Crown wrote with his own hand. The Ambassador consulted his Counselor and was told...
...prevent the granting of a divorce in which the "innocent party" (Mrs. Simpson) can be shown to be also adulterous, was much embarrassed last week. Not only had one of the richest women in Britain instructed her lawyers to badger the King's Proctor, but a discharged servant of Edward VIII was said to be not only willing but anxious to have "revenge" upon his former employer by testifying as to whether or not Mrs. Simpson had always been chaperoned when sleeping under the royal roof. In these ghastly circumstances, Britons could only hope that Baldwin the Magnificent...
...Uruguayan press conference for newshawks, Latin & U. S., each of whom had spent the day under the surveillance of an individually assigned detective. Before the President's departure, the able Montevideo police chief sent a delegation aboard to pay tribute at the coffin of dead U. S. Secret Servant Gus Gennerich. Then, still smiling, Franklin Roosevelt sailed for home, having had, as Santiago, Chile's El Mercurio declared, "The greatest apotheosis of his career...
...sets, Actor Laughton dominates Rembrandt, gives one of his finest performances at a dignified pace which well befits the life of his noble, if somewhat ribald, model. Best shot: Sonorous Painter Rembrandt rolling off a long, sensuous soliloquy defining Woman, while the mouths of stolid Dutchmen flap open and servant girls go glassy-eyed with dreams...
...thunders: "Let this be your epitaph - 'I struck down the mightiest talent that God ever created for the enrichment of music!'" Grandiosely he flings away the envelope containing a loan of money from her husband, but, a moment before his carriage rolls away, sends a servant back to retrieve...