Word: valets
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...would be with the Duchess, hopped over from Paris without her. He said something about getting some shirts mended, talked to his King brother, his old friend Winston Churchill, many another high-placed personage, and hopped back to Paris trailing clouds of speculation. Meantime in Paris his shocked valet de chambre scotched the tale of the shirt, informed reporters: "But really he would never think of having his shirts mended in London. This is the place for that. Why, in Paris the needlework is simply extraordinary...
...safe he left papers that Norwegian courts thought authentic. The papers said that Rudolf, in the lovers' hideaway at Mayerling, had accused Maria of gossiping about political intrigues. The little vixen raged back at him, bashed in his skull with a champagne bottle. Promptly Rudolf's valet, Josef Loschek, shot her dead...
...editor's theory that "most white magazines deal with Negroes as second-class citizens or freaks," Ebony wants to show how normal they are. Most of its heroes live in a happy world of ready cash: Eddie Anderson, whose subservient role as Jack Benny's valet RoChester is anathema to most of the Negro press, is to Ebony just a big success who has a home "like the Taj Mahals of other movie stars...
...bags for months. While they waited for visas to Portugal or France, Carol of Rumania and his statuesque friend, Magda Lupescu, dallied extravagantly at the Quintandinha, a lavish State casino outside Rio de Janeiro. With Carol and Madame dallied the royal Chancellor Ernest Udarianu and his wife, a Cuban valet de chambre and his wife, and the dogs-two black poodles, two Pekingese, a Doberman and a dachshund...
...King and Madame were devoted to the dogs. The dogs were devoted to the royal suite-so much so that after four months all the carpets had to be taken up and cleaned. But "it was beautiful," said the valet of Carol and Madame Lupescu. "The greatest thing they have in common is the dogs. The only thing they talk about" is the dogs. But the dogs won't go outside to the trees...