Word: valete
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...which Hollywood has recently furnished, this one is also one of the least instructive, most diverting. More vulgar than Mayor Walker, Mayor Kingston has himself measured for a suit in the presence of guests. Less able than his prototype, Mayor Kingston cannot tie his own black tie. Before his valet does it for him, he startles his master by saying: "Please lie down. I used to be an undertaker...
...favorite dress of King George is that of Admiral of the Fleet." his valet Hewlett has said, mournfully adding, "But the dress in which His Majesty most frequently appears is that of Field Marshal...
...Actress Deslys died in 1920, also of a throat infection. Dom Manoel retired with his wife (whose marriage Pope Benedictus XV had refused to annul) to his farm at Twickenham, near London, settled down to a life of farming, tennis, fencing and following horse races. He died while his valet's daughter was being married. He had promised to be best...
Snappy was the word exactly to describe General Ismet Pasha, Turkish Premier as he stepped from his private car, immaculate. Behind him trudged Turkish Proxy No. 2 whom no valet could make snappy ? peering, stoop-shouldered Dr Tewfik Rushdi Bey, Foreign Minister. Once an accoucheur, the patient, fumbling Tewfik wears high-powered spectacles with the thickest lenses in all Turkey. He, by six years of astute diplomacy, has made the Soviet Union small Turkey's fast & firm friend. While a Red Army commander stepped forward to greet General Ismet, Tewfik talked with Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov winced...
...Carl Carlson, valet to Charles Michael Schwab, of a cracked skull suffered when he fell to the tracks of a New York subway; Most Rev, Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, in Cannes where he is being treated by King's Physician Lord Dawson of Penn ; Charles Spencer Chaplin, in Singapore, of dengue fever; Britain's Chancellor of the Ex chequer Neville Chamberlain, of gout following lumbago ; Representative William Robert Wood, of Indiana, 71-year-old chairman of the Republican National Congressional Committee, critically exhausted from overwork on the House Appropriations Committee ; Henry Lewis Stimson, confined...