Word: valets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT: A Hero to His Valet-James Amos-John Day ($2). Intimate information from the second butler...
...wear double-breasted coats. His trousers have no cuffs. He never wears checks, is not fond of striped effects, shuns soft collars, prefers 'black footgear to brown, high to low. He wears no jewelry save a ring (left third finger). No fop, the President disturbed the White House valet by putting three cigars in the pocket of his formal evening clothes. The valet maintained that more than two cigars made a bulge in the pocket. The President answered that less than three cigars would not carry him through a long dinner...
...pages are broken with epigrams: "Good servants are trustworthy and it is doubtful whether there is a great man in history who would not, as a valet, have pilfered from his master." The style is quicker on its feet, less mannered, than before. Occasionally, as indicated, Author Arlen squares off too noticeably for a purple passage, a witty remark...
...addition to the prominent parts taken by C. F. Frazier '27 as Dolores Casanova, the Spanish vampire , and R. W. Grossman 1G.B. as Jimmy Walker, Rockwell's valet, the following personnel is announced: "Pa" Ogden A. A. Laun '27 Tom Mixer E. F. Gamache'27 Bull Montana R. W. Ayer 3E.S. Zane Gray C. A. Allen'28 Ollie Curwood J. A. Hutchinson...
...tortuous slope to the dead body. There he squatted, howled until a rescue party, guided by the sound, came. Baring his short sharp teeth, growling and snarling, he kept at bay for an hour these men who he supposed had come to harm his dead master. Hastily summoned, the valet of Count Széchényi at last soothed and called off Printz. That night he planted himself on stumpy, determined legs beside his master's bier, had to be leashed and dragged away when the morticians came...