Word: valet
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...conflict in Miss Julie is as much be tween classes as sexes. At a Midsummer Eve revel, arrogant, dissatisfied Miss Julie, the neurotic child of parents who hated each other, becomes infatuated with her father's valet and tempts him into an affair. Respectful enough beforehand, he turns sneeringly overbearing. But, however revolted, Miss Julie is also desperate. She steals her father's money to try to run away with her lover, in the end seizes her lover's razor to do away with herself...
...belief in the answerability of all questions-but all that with a Philadelphia accent of thrift and humor. Even crusty New Englander John Adams, seemingly too patrician to accept a self-made boy at his true worth, had to admit: "There was scarcely a peasant or a citizen, a valet de chambre, coachman or footman, a lady's chambermaid or a scullion in a kitchen, who ... did not consider him a friend to human kind...
...coattails of the champ. When Sugar Ray Robinson arrived in Chicago last week, a challenger once more for the middleweight title he had given up when he retired in 1952, his entourage had been trimmed to a modest number that included his wife, his son, a cook, a valet, a personal bodyguard, a sparring partner, two trainers, two managers and two press-agents. For a man of Sugar's high tastes, his relative economy suggested that he meant business...
From the Gettysburg post office, Ike will direct the affairs (though not the panoply) of state-but he will spend as much time alone on the farm as he can. There, aside from watchful Secret Service men, only Mamie, Master Sergeant John Moaney (Ike's valet) and Mrs. Moaney will share his privacy. The farm remains the quiet refuge Ike envisioned in 1950 as his first permanent home...
...Hitler really fly into towering rages and chew up rugs? Linge was asked. "I can only laugh at that," said he. "Hitler always had himself in complete control." Why, then, had he killed himself? "Because," said Hitler's valet, "everything was hopeless...