Word: valeted
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...friend, Marilyn Monroe does the best job of her short career to date. Her almost surrealist figure, quite as implausible as a Petty girl's, fascinates every male aboard a transatlantic luxury liner, from a monocled old millionaire (Charles Coburn) to a six-year-old boy with a valet and a foghorn voice (George Winslow). In the process, she also sings remarkably well,* dances, or rather undulates all over, flutters the heaviest eyelids in show business, and breathlessly delivers such lines of dialogue as "Coupons-that's almost like money," as if she were in the throes...
...door of the U.S. Senate chamber opened one afternoon last week, and a guest was ushered in. Harry S. Truman, tanned and eupeptic, not quite as trim and natty as he used to be (he no longer has a personal valet), beamed as Senators and visitors broke into applause...
...passport, sent the girl home, and escorted Duarte back to his luxurious apartment. He called in some pals, and until after midnight, sounds of laughing and drinking came from the rooms. Apparently, after the guests left, Juan Duarte concluded that it was time to check out. His valet found him in the morning with a bullet in his chest...
...coloratura passages like a flute, and also shook the rafters with a few stunning fortissimos. Baritone George Gaynes, who is Rosalind Russell's leading man in Broadway's Wonderful Town, took a night off to play the part of the prince's scene-stealing valet, and indulge in some jaunty clowning. Biggest joke of all was John Butler's deadpan ballet-a sextet of nymphs and fauns taking authentic antique poses in long pink underwear-that started the audience giggling, and left it howling with laughter...
...Henry James: "If ever God made a lame cat, James was the boy. Culture without perception, delicate to the verge of indelicacy . . . it all sounds to me like high middle-class life described from the angle of a natural-born valet...