Word: valeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cantor's innumerable operations have become almost a classic in Broadway prattle, and while Frenchy, his valet rubbed him down, many of the incisions, including the famous one with the zipper, could be seen. The star was resting between shows, but his flow of speech was unhalting. Audiences, actors, his own family, stage personalities--all were discussed by the comedian...
Main Roads & The League. Eight black horses borrowed, as usual, from a brewery were ready to draw the King's State Coach to the opening of Parliament this week and His Majesty's valet had laid out an admiral's uniform over which he was to wear a great royal black and crimson mantle. Abruptly Edward VIII, giving the excuse that it had started to rain cancelled all the traditional British pageantry, popped into a motor car and whisked off to Whitehall through what United Press reported as "a lack of crowds considered unprecedented...
...Majesty chose for himself a small bed room near the pantry, occupied until last week by a servant. The servant was moved out and Scottish plumbers did a record rush job of installing for the King a bathroom with an electric pushbutton handy by the tub to call his valet...
Clarence Chamberlin and Charles A. Levine became bitter enemies. Admiral Richard E. Byrd knocked out Bert Acosta with a flashlight as their plane circled over France. Joseph Marie Lebrix "sickened of being a valet" to Dieudonne Coste. Alexander Magyar challenged George Endres to a duel. To this tradition which dictates that men who have flown the North Atlantic together shall not long be friends, Crooner Harry Richman and Pilot Dick Merrill last week lived up with a bang...
...usual the King was awakened by his valet bringing a cup of tea and his more intimate mail. After breakfast he donned the scarlet & gold of his rank as Colonel-in-Chief of the Grenadier Guards. A thunderstorm threatened, the morning was muggy-hot and to wear a busby was to be almost drowned in sweat, but His Majesty's duty was clear. Clapping on a great, hot bearskin busby, King Edward swung onto his chestnut charger, rode off to observe his birthday by a ceremonial trooping of the color followed by booming salutes...