Word: valeted
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...Gooder Brit also had the only automobile on radio that ran on wasp power. The Hornet is one of the few oldies to show his age. "Sufferin' snakes!" he blurts, "that's real white of you." One mystery for modern listeners is why Kato, his faithful valet, starts out as a Japanese and winds up as a Filipino. Simple: the change of citizenship was made on Pearl Harbor...
Although his valet, Miles, was among the wedding guests, none of Ambler's family was present. He had explained that his 68-year-old mother was too aged and frail to make the journey. The groom's uncle, Norman Ambler, who breeds dogs at Cap d'Antibes on the French Riviera and was also uninvited, scoffed at the story. He described his sister-in-law as spry and active, but added, "However, she is something of a religious fanatic-she is liable to start quoting the Scriptures at everyone. That may be one of the reasons John...
...SERVANT. All candlelight and gleaming crystal, this smooth essay on class distinction in Britain casts Dirk Bogarde as the malicious valet who trades places with his master...
...later because she hated the islands, as has been reported. "It was an interfering mother-in-law." There is more, too, she promises, including love letters from Pershing and MacArthur. "Remember the old saying," she smiles sweetly. "A man can never be a hero to his wife or his valet...
...handsome pension to Malmaison. When she died at 50 in May 1814, after contracting a chill at an outdoor reception, 20,000 people filed past her bier and Paris was flooded with pamphlets hailing la bonne Josephine. Bonaparte was virtually the last to get the news. A valet clipped the story out of a Genoa newspaper and sent it to the former Emperor on Elba...