Word: valets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...later because she hated the islands, as has been reported. "It was an interfering mother-in-law." There is more, too, she promises, including love letters from Pershing and MacArthur. "Remember the old saying," she smiles sweetly. "A man can never be a hero to his wife or his valet...
...handsome pension to Malmaison. When she died at 50 in May 1814, after contracting a chill at an outdoor reception, 20,000 people filed past her bier and Paris was flooded with pamphlets hailing la bonne Josephine. Bonaparte was virtually the last to get the news. A valet clipped the story out of a Genoa newspaper and sent it to the former Emperor on Elba...
...maitre d'hotel, two housekeepers, four butlers, six cooks, a valet, five doormen, five housemen, a head laundress, a pantry woman, eight maids, eight engineers, four carpenters, four electricians, three plumbers, two storekeepers, a painter, ten laborers and eleven gardeners...
...nation a year ago, finally buried the hatchet. With royalties beginning to flow into his treasury from big, Western-financed iron-ore mines, Ould Daddah cut off the $4,000,000 annual subsidy his government has been getting from France, thus effectively answering African taunts that he is a "valet of the French...
...perhaps, is a hero to his valet. But in The Ordeal of Power, Journalist Emmet John Hughes uses his experiences as an Eisenhower speechwriter to strip not only Ike but almost everyone around him as well...