Word: valets
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...After going to church on Sunday morning, President and Mrs. Coolidge drove in their car to the residence of Arthur Brooks, Negro valet of all the Presidents since Taft, who had been confined to his home by illness...
...salon at the piano. In came my mother and went to the grand. She began to play. Tomy question as to what she was playing she replied, with an abstract gaze, "Schubert's Lob der Tränen" (In Praise of Tears). A few minutes later the valet brought news that father was very ill. Never shall I forget how my mother dashed through the door. . . . When I saw her in later years at rehearsals the festival productions, representing roles as Kundry, Isolde, Sieglinde or Brünilde, my mind often reverted to that moment in Venice. Her impersonation...
...characterizations are very well done. Walter Gilbert is a handsome movie hero; Mark Kent is his valet, who is responsible for the entire action; Adelyn Bushnell plays a screen struck girl who is madly in love with the hero, Garrison Page (in his latest picture, "Huckleberry Harry, the Heartbreaker"). Miss Bushnell and Jill Middleton have an extremely humorous crying dialogue, Hero, maidens in distress, villyuns, a blackmail plot, suspicion,--it was an elegant evening...
Cousin Egbert was possessed of a considerable fortune but no table manners. Therefore he was deported to Paris by his socially hopeful relatives and bidden to acquire culture. In the process he takes unto himself a valet and returns with the valet to Red Gap. The premier performance of the piece is given by Ernest Torrence as uncouth Cousin Egbert. Second in command is Lois Wilson...
...royal Spanish valet who lives by the sale of his king's clothes...