Word: valeted
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...many another adventurous tale to tell-of spearfishing in the shark-infested waters off Dakar, of a near-drowning as he shot underwater pictures during a raging Atlantic storm, of a 1,200-mile trek through French Guinea and of the difficulties involved in helping his Negro valet purchase a wife in a native village (price: 200,000 francs...
Churchill's entourage, the maid recalled, consisted of a male secretary and a valet-bodyguard. Since Churchill had a bad cold, the valet instructed the maid to get two dozen handkerchiefs, each a yard square and imported from the British Isles. Wrote the colonel's lady: "Churchill was really a demigod to this fellow . . . This cocky detective said that Mr. Churchill had the mind of the century and there was nothing that he did not know or could not understand...
...Poet Francis Jerringham, a Roman Catholic convert, who is acidly etched by his literary agent as a "Vatican valet" and "Roman meistersinger...
Wealth, of course, is not out of place here, but Schine, certainly one of the richest men in his class, made it so. He lived in a style which went out here with the era of the Gold Coast: and exquisitely furnished room, a valet, a big black convertible equipped with a two-way phone-radio, and a fabulous electronic piano with built-in radio and phonograph. Nobody seems to know exactly what his allowance was while he was here, but he always had plenty of money to spend...
...people genuinely liked him. The only three who could be located are Pete and Charlie of the Crimson Men's Shop, who both remember him as a "really nice fellow," and Tony Vento, the Adams House janitor who served as Schine's valet...