Word: valeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eight deceptive weeks of peace & quiet in Newfoundland fooled Governor and Commander-in-Chief Sir John Middleton into thinking he could safely leave the Dominion last week and sail home for London's smart spring "season." Sir John's valet had packed his things. His secretary had booked him the best cabin on a boat sailing shortly from St. John's.* Over the teacups at Buckingham Palace candid Sir John would answer King George's queries about the rioting of Newfoundland's jobless (TIME, Feb. 22). If His Majesty, who goes deeply into such things, should ask whether a picture...
...wisdom that fits the odd-lot characters in Author Powys' romance. Glastonbury's broth begins to bubble & boil at the reading of the late Canon William Crow's will. To the disgust of the assembled Crows the old man has left his money to his secretary-valet John Geard, an evangelistic fanatic who can cure old Tittie Petherton's cancer pains by holding her in his arms. The stage is set for the struggle between Philip Crow, the rich industrialist who expected to inherit Canon Crow's money and industrialize all Glastonbury with its help...
...used to smoke strong Italian stogies, does so no more. He has given up drinking wines (Bordeaux was his favorite), drinks boiled water, a custom he adopted in Poland. Slightly diabetic, he eats sparingly but still likes Milanese cuisine, risottos, cutlets. He has a valet named Malvestiti.* The Holy Father shaves himself, with a safety razor. Once a fortnight Simoncelli, the Papal barber, cuts his hair which is still dark. Simoncelli must be silent, for the Pope snoozes. For nasty weather, Pius XI has a pure white raincoat, with galoshes to match. If he wishes he may go motoring...
...Mother Superior of its heroines. His frugality; his apelike way of walking, with his shoulders stooped and his hands hanging about his knees, make him more of an enigma to Hollywood than Hollywood is to him. He defends it against its detractors, calls it busy, sane. His valet. Jenner, who has been with him for 25 years, brings him tea at 3:30 every day, sees that he quits work promptly at 4:30, says he has never seen George Arliss break a monocle. Worn first as an affectation, the Arliss eyeglass, which has ribbed a groove into his right...
Dieudonne Coste and the late Joseph Marie Lebrix who "sickened of being a valet to Coste." Coste and Maurice Bellonte, his Paris-New York copilot, also drifted apart...