Word: valeted
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...stretched across two seats from which the backs had been removed. A green curtain hung about the improvised bed. The plane's remaining 26 bucket seats were for Harry Hopkins and Admiral Leahy, for the President's naval and military aides, his physician, a masseur, and his valet, Prettyman. Also taken along were a corps of six Filipino cooks from the Presidential yacht Potomac...
...cost of Christmas greetings and other personal telegrams and cables, juke boxes, vitamin pills, valet services, and $225 for "a spare set of false teeth...
...genteel whoop-de-do. Boston newspapers had counted the couple's luggage, duly reported 31 pieces. For that, the Duchess gave interviewers a lecture, called it all "most extraordinary," pointed out that the 31 pieces were not just for herself and husband but also a maid, a valet and a secretary. Wrote Herald Columnist Bill Cunningham: "Possibly I'm stupid but it seems to me that this makes it all incredibly worse-five people and all this culch loading up a common carrier in times such as these just to call upon an ailing aunt...
...Major General Charles H. Corlett's command, arriving in the Aleutians for the occupation of Kiska, blinked with amazement at getting such apparently meek & modest talk from an Army publication. Reading on in the special 50-page pamphlet entitled Soldiers' Manual (and subtitled Every Man His Own Valet-Every Foxhole a Suite at the Waldorf}, they found some of the best common-sense advice yet gathered for men in this...
This brisk bit of skulduggery permits antisocial Painter Farll to assume his valet's name and begin a new life as a starving artist. The arrangement works well until 1) the valet's wife (Una O'Connor) and family turn up and denounce the fraud; 2) an art dealer is accused of selling forged Farlls...