Word: valeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thornton Cooke, president of Kansas City's Columbia National Bank, awoke on a Pullman in Manhattan's Grand Central Station to find that a switch engine had gone somewhere with the train valet and with his only suit. Banker Cooke ordered an invalid's chair, swaddled himself in Pullman Co. blankets, had himself scooted through the depot to the Hotel Biltmore...
Most traveled of U. S. publishers is Van Lear Black of the Baltimore Sun. In his own trimotored Fokker monoplane, accompanied by pilots, secretary and valet, he has pleasure-jaunted some 130,000 mi. through Europe, Africa, Asia and the U. S. Last week he arrived in San Francisco aboard the liner Tatsuta Maru with the plane and crew which had taken him 6,000 mi. from Croydon, England to Osaka, Japan. Simultaneously, Sun readers tasted the Burton Holmes influence of Publisher Black's peregrinations. Six of the Sun's eight front-page column-tops were devoted...
...equal zest. Reginald Owen as an authentic prince is thoroughly royal in the decadent sense of the word. He has his amours, his noblesse oblige, and a sense of humor that fits very well with the American conception of prince-lings on continuous leave. Alan Mowbray as Josef, the valet, is a thoroughly snobbish servant of the more malignant variety. The burden of the comedy rests on him and he carries off his part very well...
...ever died more charmingly than the Earl of Balfour at 81 last week in the home of his brother and heir Rt. Hon. Gerald William Balfour. A bachelor to the last, he whispered to his nurse. "Is it the end?" She nodded and he motioned for his valet, Coltman. who came with streaming eyes. "Shake hands." whispered the Earl, and Coltman clasped his master's hand, choking with emotion. "Goodbye, James! Thank you very much for all you have done for me."-such were the last words of the Earl of Balfour...
...father. He was difficult, even as a child. When told to kiss the plump cheek of a grown-up female relative, he bit it. His mother's death, when he was 5, plunged him into despair and atheism. His only childhood friend was his grandfather's valet, who was killed by falling from a mulberry tree. At school Henri won a prize at mathematics, and at 16 was allowed to go to Paris, ostensibly to enter L'Ecole Polytechnique, really "with the firm intention of becoming a seducer of women." He did neither; in 1800 his cousin...