Word: valets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lear Black* famed as the U. S. businessman who has taxied by air the largest number of miles, last fortnight gave up temporarily his most extensive taxi-tour. With one valet, two Dutch pilots and a sturdy triple-engined Fokker Jupiter plane, he set out a month ago to tour the world. No Jules Verne hero, he intended to break no record of speed, altitude, distance or endurance. He would go in a leisurely way from Croydon Airdrome, England, to Tokyo, and back, with sundry detours about the Mediterranean coast, in South Africa, and Mesopotamia-a matter...
...this point the valet announced that the Baron's "smoking" was ready and that the party must rush to the next appointment...
...Ernest Perrin, officer de l'Instruction Public, will take the leading role, "le Marquis de la Seigliere." "Destournelles, un avocat," will be taken by W. B. Cowan Jr. '29, president of the organization, W. D. Carter '31 will play the character of "Jasmin, valet." From Radcliffe Miss Elizabeth Lyman will take the part of "La Baronne de Vaubert." The part of "Helene" has not yet been selected...
...tired, greying statesman donned formal raiment, last week at Belgrade, submitted while a valet pinned upon him the blazing orders which are his, and then rode wearily off to the white stone Royal Palace...
...discredit Candidate Smith and Tammany Hall as vicious, grafting plug-uglies. Mayor James J. Walker of New York City,* with 36 pairs of spats and a plenitude of evening shirts, morning shirts, afternoon shirts and silk pajamas instead of nightshirts, all most exquisitely cared for by Robert Abel, English valet, last week set out for the Mardi Gras at New Orleans. The theory: the Midwest may think what it has a mind to about Tammany Hall, but what the South thinks of Tammany is important. At Baltimore, Tammany's dandy lived up to his word that he had "nothing...