Word: valets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black hour hurried Archibald and Kermit Roosevelt. President Hoover sent Col. Campbell Blackshear Hodges, his chief military aide, to Aiken by air. Copper Tycoon Charles Clark offered his private car Errant to Mrs. Longworth. Mourning alone near his master was Charles Eicheoff, for 31 years the Speaker's valet, to whom belonged credit for the famed perfection of the Longworth attire...
...Living is a comedy of German extraction. It uses four characters, the two most important being a gambler and the man whom he has made his valet in lieu of pressing for payment of gaming losses. After three acts of this entertainment, one concludes that hokum is the same the whole world over. Sample lines given to the female character named Ly, who intrudes into the gambler's flat: "They called me the tiger cat?and they had good reason for it. ... So he's the master and you're the valet, eh? Life's queer sometimes...
...sanctorum in order to win a bet. The young wizard is properly upset and so is the financial world. The woman plays with the inexperienced man. The man ends up by following her on board a curious trans-Atlantic liner. A travelling library on the subject of amours, Douglas' valet, mixes a potion that upsets everything. An orchestra plays; the passengers indulge in an intricate ballet and song while ships officers and winches look on in unmoved silence. The usual almost happens then the news of a financial panic makes everything end up as it should. The steamer...
Ensued a month of hectic cabling. Finally last week the sealed car was towed to Warsaw, opened. The sword was found, exactly where Marshal Pilsudski's valet had said it would be. The sword was shipped to Madeira. It arrived safely. Correspondents were permitted to learn why it was so urgently needed...
...Federal Reserve Bank of New York did differ about last November. Mr. Norman had joined Mr. Harrison on the S. S. Bremen at Southampton, seemingly to accompany him to New York. But when the Bremen reached Cherbourg the Governor of the Bank of England got off with his valet and his bags, rushed back to London, has not since been to Manhattan (TIME. Dec. 15). Even last December the Bank of England was facing such heavy gold withdrawals (which have continued) that U. S. "cooperation" (support) was being eagerly mentioned by British financiers...