Word: servitor
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...only knew how sumptuous all this was!" cried an aged Russian servitor. "The broken windows are stuffed with paper now, but 16 years is a long time! With no more money coming from St. Petersburg what was His Excellency to do but sell first the priceless carpets from Turkestan, then the gold service, the tapestries and at last even the chairs...
...wriggles, shouts, jumps, and with a gesture or a lift of the voice delineates such spectacles as a herd of camels, Rev. Mr. Davidson in Rain, Judas strangling himself (with a strand of Magdalen's hair), a door bell going Ting-a-ling-a-ling, an old family servitor, a Southern belle you-alling in crinolines...
...money away to a tattered virgin (Fay Wray) who describes herself as a "desert Cinderella" and seems to have gotten into the picture when no one was looking. The Unholy Garden has the defect of implausibility but it is not wholly stupid. Good shot: Colman reproving an Algerian servitor who licks his chops when announcing that a lady wishes...
...founder of Fortnum & Mason was one Cornelius Fortnum, faithful servitor of Queen Anne. For years he held the unique monopoly of being allowed to take and sell the Court's old candles, for Queen Anne would never allow the same candle to be lit twice. In 1710 he opened his shop and began dealing in delicacies. Later Fortnum & Mason added shoes to its food department, then clothes. Swiftly grew its prestige. Gladstone and Disraeli were steady customers. From Fortnum & Mason Queen Victoria ordered 250 Ib. of beef tea to be shipped to Florence Nightingale in the Crimea. Queen Mary...
Noticing that an extra, bemedaled servitor waited exclusively upon His Majesty, Prizeman Lewis jested...