Word: valets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...between Bath and London, in one city drinking the waters, in the other, the bitter tea of a lonely old age. His reason had withered his faith in God and realism had whittled his faith in man, but nothing ever weakened his faith in manners. On his deathbed, his valet announced that a friend, Solomon Dayrolles, had come to see him. "Give Dayrolles a chair," croaked Chesterfield, and died...
...Adler's blonde wife (Patricia Knight) and conveniently committed Adler to prison. Hitler failed to reckon with a vengeful zeal and a talent for impersonation that enabled Adler to move painstakingly up the Nazi social ladder in the successive roles of the prison warden, Hitler's valet, and finally the Führer himself...
Automatic Valet. In the lobby of a Cleveland office building last week, U.S. Hoffman Machinery Corp. placed an automatic dry-cleaning vending machine. The customer phones the cleaning company from the machine and puts his suit in a locker. The clothes are picked up by the cleaner, returned to the locker in four to seven hours. The customer deposits his money and the locker opens. U.S. Hoffman plans to install 20 "Valeterias" in Cleveland, start nationwide distribution by next year...
...lived there ever since, gives some of the answers in an admirable, well-documented biography. Not only has Frischauer pondered Goering's career from womb to ash can; he has also won the confidence of such key figures as Goering's widow, his valet and some of his military aides. The result is popular biography at its best...
Since first coming to Cambridge in 1914, Johnson served as bartender, valet, and jack-of-all-trades through the era of the original "Gold Coast," the thirsty days of Prohibition, and two world wars. Besides being the official bartender at many student parties and dances, including all those of the CRIMSON, he was for many years caretaker at the home of Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus...