Word: valets
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...Victory lived on. With groping motions he made clear, in his lucid moments, that he wished his hands?the famous Tiger claws, cased day and night in kitten-soft grey gloves?to be held by the two men who were perhaps his closest, dearest, most faithful friends, Albert, his valet, Francois, his chauffeur...
...Ejected from a restaurant, he soon found out what his mother never taught him, that if you were a nigger you were degraded. The thing to do was find a menial job. You could be a "sweetback" (Negro gigolo). Taylor was not, but he was chauffeur, porter, valet. Later he toured with Circusman Ringling. But he was not satisfied. Something new was growing in him now-he wanted to sing the woes of his race. Like many a Negro he felt a queerly mixed hatred and love of his people...
...fortnight prior the 88-year-old War Prime Minister had returned to Paris from his summer cottage, told friends that he did not expect to live through the winter. Early last week his valet found the old Tiger in bed, breathing heavily, unconscious from a sudden heart attack. Worried specialists rushed to his bedside, administered oxygen, strychnine, summoned his son, his daughter, his grandson. They privately gave up hope that the old man could live through the night. They forgot the implacable will of Georges Clémenceau. The man who carried France through the dark winter...
...Washington. Berry, the Prime Minister's valet, and Inspectors Walter Dew and Victor White, his Scotland Yard attendants, may well have been surprised to hear the cannonading and bugle-blowing that went up as their chief, self-styled "missionary of peace," detrained in Washington to find a full-dress military reception. Green, Blue, Red. After visiting the British Embassy and pausing about 75 minutes, part of the motorcade reformed and the Prime Minister was taken to the President. He waited in the Green Room while Ambassador Howard went in to see the President in the Blue Room. Then...
...cuddlesome lady with a crinkly nose who accepts a blind date over the telephone and presently finds herself received by a debonair, ingenuous Prince-Mr. Howard. Asked if he has many mistresses, he observes: "They do pile up." She is even more enchanted by the Prince's frolicsome valet, who kisses her when his master is out of the room and is admirably behaved in every respect. What the audience knows, and Miss Lawrence does not, is that the Prince is really the valet and the valet the Prince. They have exchanged rank for the evening. What Miss Lawrence...