Word: valeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt was having breakfast in bed and newshawks were already clamoring at the White House offices when Valet McDuffie brought him Mr. Van Devanter's message. If he made a grimace, only Valet McDuffie knows. He called for a piece of paper and scribbled an answer. "May I as one who has had the privilege of knowing you for many years, extend to you every good wish. Before you leave Washington for the summer it would give me great personal pleasure if you would come in to see me"-polite, noncommittal, frigid. Unlike most similar letters...
...only son, was at Pocantico Hills near Tarrytown, N. Y. Mrs. Alta Rockefeller Prentice, his only living daughter, was at her estate at Williamstown, Mass. At the bedside in the air-conditioned chamber were Mrs. Fannie Evans, the cousin who acted as his hostesshousekeeper; his longtime valet-attendant, John H. Yordi, and his night nurse, Roy C. Sly. "His passing was peaceful," said Dr. Merryday. "He had no final message. Apparently he didn't realize he was dying." Death was attributed to sclerotic myocarditis (hardening of the heart muscles...
...whisks off the red robe that he has been wearing, passes it briskly to the Lord Great Chamberlain, who was supposed to divest him ceremoniously. The Lord Great Chamberlain looks bewildered. Lady Reading, widow of the onetime Viceroy of India, observes: "Like a man handing his bathrobe to a valet.". . . In a Yorkshire cave 300 ft. underground a knot of people sit round a radio, listening intently. They are members of the British Speleological (scientific cave study) Society...
...notable last week that such prominent Soviet wives as Perfume Trust Manager Zhemchuzhina* and the spouse of Assistant Foreign Commissar Nikolai Krestinsky should have taken Mrs. Davies socially in tow on a round of Moscow creches and factory restaurants while Ambassador Davies, his daughter Emlen and his valet went off to inspect the Ukraine. It was not that Mrs. Davies, the extremely rich General Foods heiress, is known in Russia for her notable philanthropies-on which she did not cut down during Depression, while she did cut down on her parties, one of which included elephants from Ringling Brothers-Barnum...
...before anyone but even balked at having his pulse counted, until lately Dr. Milani managed to excite his interest in the technique of this simple operation. One story ladled out last fortnight by the "Vatican Voices" was that for no less than three months the Pope and his ancient valet Giovanni Malvestiti kept secret his varicose veins, treating them with "home remedies...