Word: valeted
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...Lynn Phillips, is a study in desperate hatred. Relief from all this psychopathic tension is contributed by Ernest Cossart in the role of a detective, Sergeant Rough. Cossart has been appearing in movies for several years, but has always been buried in minor parts as a butler or valet. In "Angel Street" he reaches full stature, playing a tender-hearted sleuth with an ever-present bottle...
Whatever the advertisement in the Boston Herald may say, the last part of the picture is a good substitute for a sleeping pill, in spite of Paul Robeson, Ethel Waters, and Rochester, who seems far removed from Jack Benny's valet of the same name...
...trip to Newfoundland's Placentia Bay for the Atlantic Charter signing. Then two flights to Washington. Now it was the 10,000-mile trip to Egypt and Moscow. It was a relief this week to Sawyers, Churchill's pale-lashed, nimble little valet, to be back again in No. 10 Downing Street...
...cheerfully from Birmingham (where he told an audience: "Once the shipping problem has been mastered, the Allied Nations can hold out very solid grounds for confidence") to Cabinet meetings in London, then to holiday on his rolling moors in Yorkshire. Droopy-lidded Sir Horace Wilson, Chamberlain's political valet at Munich, prepared to quit his office in the Treasury as head of the British Civil Service. Munich-time Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon, now Lord Simon, Lord Chancellor, nursed through a garrulous House of Lords a bill empowering U.S. military forces in Britain to set up courts...
Among the 30 guests at last week's small but celebrity-dotted wedding: democratic Jock Whitney's chauffeur and valet, Betsey Roosevelt's two children (Sara Delano and Kate Roosevelt), secret service men who keep constant guard over the President's grandchildren...