Word: stewarding
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...done hundreds, expects to do many more. Privately he hates society jobs, quotes his friend the late great John Singer Sargent that "portrait painting, my boy, is a pimp's profession." One portrait, however, that he thoroughly enjoyed was that of faithful James Miller, ancient, honorable red-nosed steward of Princeton's Ivy Club. Because Artist Lintott painted faithful James smiling quizzically over a silver cocktail shaker, timorous club trustees refused to accept the picture, feared that its exhibition might bring Princeton and the Ivy Club into disrepute, suggested the substitution of a coffee pot. Artist Lintott...
...with milk and at least 100 hens to keep the house dining room with eggs. 5,460 square inches of bread, 960 pieces of butter, 45 dozen hot rolls and great quantities of griddle cakes are consumed every day according to information given out by Edgar Sane, Dunster House steward...
King Alfonso of Spain lately went to Southampton, England, on a train whose chef, steward and pantryboy all were named King. Hearing that King George would be at the horse-racing at Sandown, Isle of Wight, the Kings (chef, steward and pantryboy) put purses on a horse named Cherry King. Cherry King came in first, paid...
...that-can make a funny situation funny. Laughter comes far more easily from a "straight" situation that has been turned comic by some attitude that makes it ridiculous or by the presence of a character who does not belong in it. As a taxidriver, a ship's steward, and finally a castaway on a desert island, Oakie through the rambling plot has nothing to satirize; the only way that he can satirize the tedious job of being funny all the time is by being inadvertently dull for long stretches. People who find the picture outmoded in its song...
Then there was a wench who kept screaming: "Long live Russia!" The steward who put her out returned ruefully nursing a deeply bitten hand. Naturally the delegates on the floor were quieter than their friends in the gallery, but the Congress's trend was distinctly leftward. Neither Congress Chairman John Beard (a fusty old ex-insurance canvasser) nor the Labor Government's representative Home Secretary John Robert Clynes seemed able to stem the drift. In the end square-shouldered Ernest Bevin, fat, rumbling-voiced, forceful Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, emerged as the hero...