Word: valets
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Detectives, despatched by the Bank of France to Amsterdam, found that the housemaid was receiving counterfeit bills regularly from her family in Hungary. They discovered that her father was the valet of the celebrated Prince Ludwig Windisch-Graetz...
Marcel the valet took cruel punishment in an Alaskan camp until he innocently shot four huge bears and taught the foreman la savate (pedal boxing...
...secretary to Mr. Clark; Mrs. Clark; E. W. Smithers, the White House telegraphist; Pat McKenna, Cerberus of the White House office, friend of all dignitaries for the last 20 years; Erwin Geisser, the President's stenographer; Katherine Gwynn, Mrs. Coolidge's maid; John May, White House butler, valet ad interim to the President; Julia Jongbloet, cook, successor to the famed Martha M. Mulvey; Rob Roy, collie; and Paul Pry (the report that Paul Pry, grown vicious, was about to be disposed of, seems to have been an unfounded libel). Not included in the party were Mrs. Jaffrey, Presidential...
...castles in Spain are dangerous places for dalliance. The Spaniard (Ricardo Cortez) who entices her to one, is shot as the betrayer of another girl. Thereupon she decides she really loves her absent husband. Flying to Argentina, she is pursued all the way by the dead man's valet (Lon Chaney) who also practises love-making with her. To gain his ends, he waves an incriminating letter over her for reel after reel. She wears herself and the audience out debating whether to destroy the letter. In the end, husband opens it and forgives everything very firmly...
Only members of his family, physicians and two nurses saw him-so intent was he that the news of his condition should not alarm the country. Even his valet, who shaved him, was not allowed to come to him, and he grew whiskers, for the first time since the days when, as a student at Johns Hopkins, he had cultivated sideburns. He had a phonograph brought to his bedside to minister to his undiminished love of music. Official papers were brought to him, and he signed them with effort, as best he could. After many months he was again able...