His factotum, George Dolby, records that Dickens would nerve himself one hour into each journey with a draught of brandy. |
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He was employed as the studio's title designer and general factotum while assiduously learning about filmmaking. |
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Later, impersonating the family's trusted factotum, Oreo confronts an officious medical professional. |
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Emily, as her loyal factotum explains, is happiest and best at taking care of other people. |
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Alain Locke's role as a general factotum of the Harlem Renaissance has tended to overshadow the full dimensions of an active and productive life. |
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Mme D. likes to pull strings, and uses her pallid lady's companion, the spinster Capulat, as her factotum. |
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He worked as a general factotum at Keadeen Hotel for 37 years. |
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Installation of the courtyard, creation of a technological pole, and a pole of visual art and displacement of the factotum. |
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Anton Schindler, a competent musician and sometime student of the law, becomes Beethoven's secretary and factotum. |
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When his grandson was born in 1604, his family of three had four servants, apart from his factotum and sole studio assistant, Francisco de Preboste. |
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I quickly grasped, however, that if not the factotum of the city, he was very well connected in a certain subculture whose existence I was just, by hearsay, becoming aware of. |
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Mr Berlusconi is backing his factotum, Gianni Letta. |
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One prisoner, Mosaddeq Hossain Falu, who began as Mrs Zia's factotum, progressed to become a member of parliament and proud owner of two television stations, a newspaper and a bank. |
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He now tends to be blamed for all manner of political skulduggery, of which he is almost certainly innocent. All that seems to have been behind the chancellor's decision to praise away his factotum to higher things abroad. |
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As the factotum of the Whig aristocracy, William Kent was responsible for beginning the wholesale transformation of the old formal parterres into the new fashion. |
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His main villain is Syria, along with its ally Iran and their joint factotum, Hizbullah, whose embattled mindset and glorification of armed struggle inevitably sabotage efforts to construct a more durable polity. |
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