Word: valets
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...Major" Arthur Brooks, Negro valet, who has advised every President since William Howard Taft on the purchase and wearing of clothes, suffered a sudden heart attack. President Coolidge's personal physician, Major J. F. Coupal, was summoned from Paul Smith's Hotel to White Pine Camp at 3 a.m. and reported the spell not serious. Mr. Brooks has been ill for many months. John Mays, Negro, has been substituting for Mr. Brooks...
Viands, wine, cigars and flowers had been ordered. Their Britannic Majesties were prepared to receive in splendor last week a state visit from President Doumergue and Premier Briand of France. M. Doumergue's valet pondered again the advisability of a corset. Bachelor Briand submitted to a deft clipping of his (as usual) too exuberant mop of hair. All was in readiness...
...Italian premiere of his highly sacrilegious opera, The Martyrdom of San Sebastian. The opera was explicitly barred to Catholics by the authorities at Rome after its French premiere in 1911. What of that? D'Annunzio donned the uniform of a General of the Air Service, caused his valet to obscure his chest with medals, and strode to the performance. With complete assurance he had caused it to be presented at La Scala, the leading theatre in Italy, with a seating capacity of 3,600. Despite the Catholic 'persuasion of most Italians, La Scala was jammed...
...Woodrow Wilson was a puppet. Of all the brazen effrontery, this is the worst. He is guilty of the basest ingratitude." Said Senator Caraway: "There is one thing that Colonel House absolutely proved, and that is the old French proverb that no man is ever a hero to his valet." He referred to Colonel House as "this little man that no one ever would have heard of but for his boot-licking proclivities...
Aside from such occasional, rather "complimentary censure," Signora Sarfatti avowedly sets forth her "Chief" as "a Roman of the ancient mould. . . . He is even an exception to the rule that no one is a hero to his valet. . . . It is wonderful to see how his slightest orders are obeyed. . . ." [When he marches on foot] "so alone, so upright in his martial bearing," [it seems] "as if he were on horseback...