Word: valeted
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...Superior Valet. First and greatest of the dandies, of course, was George Bryan Brummell. The son of a well-to-do bureaucrat (he confounded criticism of his birth by claiming that "my father was a very superior valet, and kept his place all his life"), Beau Brummell in his teens became the friend of the fat, feckless Prince of Wales. By dressing with unheard-of care and severity-he used only two colors, blue for his coat and buff for his waistcoat and trousers-and by developing a haughty silence that could strike like a thunderclap, Brummell made himself...
...Tonight was an unusually witty review in which Tony Randall did a string of sight gags based on Mad magazine, Bea Lillie fanned her way through a couple of her more durable numbers, and Cyril Ritchard went Around the World on 80 Pounds, at one point carrying his valet in his valise. Best of all was Songstress-Comedienne Tammy Grimes, summing up the history of American women in popular songs; her smoky voice got everything but the filter feedback out of that 18th century smash, Tobacco's but an Indian Weed...
...Some of them did worse than Ella Haggin among the cannibals. One traveled to Berlin only to find that, financially, she was the bride of a syndicate with shares in her dowry and income. Then there was a certain Lady T., who felt that her noble husband and his valet were strangely inseparable, but only when she got to the "earl's" estate did she learn that he was a lunatic and the valet was his keeper...
...third share of the profits. Gestapo informers, who insisted on hard currency for their work outside Germany, also got paid off in the phony pounds. Among those doublecrossed: the Italians who found out where Mussolini was held before his rescue by Paratrooper Otto Skorzeny; the famous valet "Cicero" (real name: Eliaza Bazna), who stole secrets from the safe of the British Ambassador to Turkey. Ultimately, some of the counterfeit notes turned up in England. But only after duplications cropped up in serial numbers did the British realize what was happening...
...prince and press, which is kept from British readers, apparently dates back to 1954 when the sensational London Sunday Pictorial ran a spicy series by the duke's ex-valet. It was aggravated this year when the Pictorial had to be stopped by court order (obtained by the royal family) from completing an intimate series by the ex-superintendent of the Queen's weekend home, Windsor Castle. Many Fleet Street newspapermen, without blaming the royal family for irritation at peephole journalists, nonetheless blame Buckingham Palace for doing nothing to encourage legitimate coverage. Any royal tour is bound...