Word: valet
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...white" court sits in pompous assurance. An elegant queen, her simpering valet, a Missionary, a Judge, a Governor--the outlandishing-garbed whites are not only obvious symbols of white culture but obscene caricatures of the values each represents...
...determined culture, as when he describes Blunden's "very worst moment" (Fussell's words), an explosion that happened close by but that Blunden only heard about. Blunden's gardner-servant told him, "Don't go over, sir, it's awful." Why don't we hear more of what the valet or others like him had to say and write about...
...assistant to Brennan. Rose Mary Woods, Nixon's longtime personal secretary, remains on Nixon's payroll but has worked mostly in Washington while awaiting retirement on a comfortable federal pension. The Nixons also still have Manolo and Fina Sanchez as personal servants. Manolo, his former White House valet, has taken on a strange chore in the entertainment of male guests. Nixon, who likes off-color stories but hates to tell them, often gives Manolo a sort of cue, like "Manolo, tell him the one about the girl in the bikini...
...through the Deep South, how many Secret Service men and other guards, how many publicity men and speechwriters, how many advisers, aides and secretaries, how large a press corps did he take with him? None. In addition to the men who handled his horses, his entourage consisted of his valet. The army of advancemen who set up the situation for Ford wherever he goes, where were they? Tavern keepers were amazed when a carriage turned unheralded into their dooryard and out stepped a tall man who proved to be the President of the U.S. The coachman would then investigate...
Something seems lost the translation, but henceforth, says the department, a brewmaster will perform his duties as a brewing consultant. A governess will be a child mentor. In an incomprehensibly backward step, a valet will be known as a gentleman's attendant. One will henceforth be seen into the world by a birth attendant, not a midwife. And an offal man's duties in slaughterhouses and meat-packing plants will become the awful work of an offal separator. What of the Labor Department's own Manpower Administration? Says a spokesperson: "They haven't figured that...