Word: valete
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...Federal Reserve Bank of New York did differ about last November. Mr. Norman had joined Mr. Harrison on the S. S. Bremen at Southampton, seemingly to accompany him to New York. But when the Bremen reached Cherbourg the Governor of the Bank of England got off with his valet and his bags, rushed back to London, has not since been to Manhattan (TIME. Dec. 15). Even last December the Bank of England was facing such heavy gold withdrawals (which have continued) that U. S. "cooperation" (support) was being eagerly mentioned by British financiers...
That to man is a hero to his valet is an ancient and generally accepted maxim; that no university possesses many virtues in the eyes of its students is not quite as ancient but as generally accepted...
...trouble is, of course, in the first case, that the valet has a restricted point of view when he sees his master. The hero, whom others admire, to the valet becomes a plain individual who must be looked after, whose clothes must be pressed, and who must have his eggs boiled exactly three minutes...
...Like the valet, the students do not see the many excellent qualities of their school, which outsiders recognize and appreciate. Perhaps because of the years of tradition, such New England universities as Harvard and Yale are apt to overshadow a younger school like Boston University and warp the student's outlook on the excellencies of this institution...
Amazingly below the standard of the classics to which he has accustomed the public every year or so, it dresses him up in velvet lounging coats, British sack suits, exotic pajamas, and tailcoats, equips him with an effete but worldly-wise valet, shows him in modernistic apartments, offices, and on board ship, pursuing a Bebe Daniels who has dyed her hair blonde for the occasion. He is a market operator of incredible riches and naïveté who has never taken a drink or run after a woman until a friend makes a friendly bet at a party...