Word: valeted
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...Briand had submitted to one of the few decent haircuts he has ever had. Even the mustache that has drooped and wandered where it would for years had been neatly trimmed, sleeked down. The Great Man wore a sack suit which had actually been pressed! His valet hovered in the offing with a hatbox and a suitcase. Out of the box could come a high silk hat, and out of the case a full dress suit. Put these clothes on Briand and- you would have the President-Elect-voilá! It was the valet's great and tragic hour...
...black hour hurried Archibald and Kermit Roosevelt. President Hoover sent Col. Campbell Blackshear Hodges, his chief military aide, to Aiken by air. Copper Tycoon Charles Clark offered his private car Errant to Mrs. Longworth. Mourning alone near his master was Charles Eicheoff, for 31 years the Speaker's valet, to whom belonged credit for the famed perfection of the Longworth attire...
...Living is a comedy of German extraction. It uses four characters, the two most important being a gambler and the man whom he has made his valet in lieu of pressing for payment of gaming losses. After three acts of this entertainment, one concludes that hokum is the same the whole world over. Sample lines given to the female character named Ly, who intrudes into the gambler's flat: "They called me the tiger cat?and they had good reason for it. ... So he's the master and you're the valet, eh? Life's queer sometimes...
...sanctorum in order to win a bet. The young wizard is properly upset and so is the financial world. The woman plays with the inexperienced man. The man ends up by following her on board a curious trans-Atlantic liner. A travelling library on the subject of amours, Douglas' valet, mixes a potion that upsets everything. An orchestra plays; the passengers indulge in an intricate ballet and song while ships officers and winches look on in unmoved silence. The usual almost happens then the news of a financial panic makes everything end up as it should. The steamer...
Ensued a month of hectic cabling. Finally last week the sealed car was towed to Warsaw, opened. The sword was found, exactly where Marshal Pilsudski's valet had said it would be. The sword was shipped to Madeira. It arrived safely. Correspondents were permitted to learn why it was so urgently needed...