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...Secretary's brother in St. Paul-but the Kelloggs like "Bodger" so well that they still occasionally borrow him. A white butler (odd in Washington) will serve tea in the library, on the ground floor, or dinner in the second floor dining room. There is one maid and a cook. The furnace man was born black. Always the master dines frugally and sips sparingly, but he is no total teetotaler. Purring from the garage comes either Mr. Kellogg's own Pierce Arrow or the Secretary of State's Packard. The small man who steps briskly in always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Kellogg on Crest | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...opera. After a night of pleasure, the young Count Octavian and the Princess von Werdenberg were interrupted in the boudoir of the Princess by a visit from her loutish cousin, Ochs von Lerchenau. To avoid detection, the Count Octavian quickly put on the clothes of a maid servant and listened to the plans of the preposterous Ochs, who wished a cavalier to go for him to his supposed fiancee, Sophie von Faminal, and present her with a silver rose to indicate his matrimonial intentions. The embassy was entrusted to the Count Octavian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rose Cavalier | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...about detaching Sophie's affection from the fat and lecherous Ochs. This was done in an instant, and it was next necessary for the count to employ strategies in order to prevent the degrading marriage which Ochs intended. There was room at the inn to which Ochs abducted the maid (Octavian), whom he had ogled in the boudoir of the Princess. Octavian played tricks on Ochs. The police, Sophie's father, the Princess arrived, but none of them stayed the course of young love, and presently Ochs took himself off and the Rose Cavalier, removing his disguise, kissed his bride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rose Cavalier | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

Only her husband's solicitor knows this and when it appears that the bastard, now grown into a beautiful girl, is about to marry a handsome member of the Dedlock clan, he croaks his intention of squealing. He has gained his information by the aid of Hortense, a maid, who has good sense and a bad temper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 14, 1929 | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...Calvin Coolidge receives in salary and allowances nearly $2,000 weekly. * Sleeping formation, as reported by the Miklas maid-of-all-work who herself sleeps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Three-Room President | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

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