Word: valets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Major Arthur Brooks, 66, Negro valet to Presidents Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, messenger toten Secretaries of War, veteran of the Spanish-American War; in Washington, D. C., of heart failure after more than two years' illness...
...what men have tacitly agreed shall be the truth." So commented a recent critic, and doubtless the scribe's Midas-fingers do convert much tinsel into gold. Yet, occasionally, there is no need for alchemy. James Amps, for many years closely associated with Theodore Roosevelt as butler, valet, "head-man," recently in Collier's sketched an intimate portrait of the Colonel's last days. The President had been a jovial man. He would tell a story of how he had loaned $200 to a "Rough Rider" friend to pay a lawyer for his defense after killing someone...
...Major" Arthur Brooks, Negro valet, who has advised every President since William Howard Taft on the purchase and wearing of clothes, suffered a sudden heart attack. President Coolidge's personal physician, Major J. F. Coupal, was summoned from Paul Smith's Hotel to White Pine Camp at 3 a.m. and reported the spell not serious. Mr. Brooks has been ill for many months. John Mays, Negro, has been substituting for Mr. Brooks...
Viands, wine, cigars and flowers had been ordered. Their Britannic Majesties were prepared to receive in splendor last week a state visit from President Doumergue and Premier Briand of France. M. Doumergue's valet pondered again the advisability of a corset. Bachelor Briand submitted to a deft clipping of his (as usual) too exuberant mop of hair. All was in readiness...
...Woodrow Wilson was a puppet. Of all the brazen effrontery, this is the worst. He is guilty of the basest ingratitude." Said Senator Caraway: "There is one thing that Colonel House absolutely proved, and that is the old French proverb that no man is ever a hero to his valet." He referred to Colonel House as "this little man that no one ever would have heard of but for his boot-licking proclivities...