Word: valeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife, who said that Charlotte Fixel, writing to her in 1920 had stated that she had been married to Mr. Erlanger; five employes of an Atlantic City hotel; an actress; three waiters; a doorman; the proprietor of a suburban inn; a Pullman porter; a hairdresser; a former valet; various tradesmen; a room clerk in Manhattan's smart Ambassador Hotel...
...chief of staff omniscient M. Andre Boissard) the Premier of France was equipped to put President Hoover's experts and key men on their mettle. Half a ton of French documents, code books, official stationery and what not the Premier also brought. But plain Pierre Laval brought no valet, wore his white wash tie, came "dressed like a salesman," as Paris papers said...
...dude" expedition. Twelve men will go with him from Ecuador across the Andes and down the Amazon to the Atlantic this winter. Each man will pay $5,000. That will cover all his expenses and equipment except clothing, cigarets and liquor. He will have a personal Indian valet; will get travel. Inca exploration, fishing, hunting, mountain-climbing, a four-month vacation. No women, not even Mrs. Dickey will go along. On the last Orinoco trip Dr. Dickey, 25 years a physician in the tropics, told her not to eat native raw vegetables unless she first washed them with permanganate...
...haired, grinning. No one would be more pleased to see Lebrix beaten in a race. The two men had been enemies ever since their spectacular co-flight around the world in 1927, at the end of which Lebrix bitterly declared that he ''was sick of being a valet to Coste." But Coste himself was not going to run in this race. Instead he had loaned his plane (also a gift of Perfumer Coty) to his friend Paul Codos...
...when Adolph Zukor did the same for Mary Pickford, he wrote Mary Pickford a letter telling her to congratulate Zukor for copying his idea. He held the first lavish previews at the Astor Hotel, signed Nazimova and Norma Talmadge, made $300,000 out of War Brides, had his valet Ishi pickle herring and serve tea from a samovar. The day after the Tsar abdicated, he sent a cable: NICHOLAS ROMANOFF: WHEN I WAS A POOR BOY IN KIEV SOME OF YOUR POLICEMEN WERE NOT NICE TO ME. . . . CAN GIVE YOU FINE POSITION ACTING IN PICTURES STOP SALARY NO OBJECT. . . . SELZNICK...