Word: errand
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...Many a minister lamented privately that his X card has resulted in his congregation's using him as a common carrier. Complained one: "It makes me feel like an errand...
...Empire Ordnance Corp. "in connection with their matters pertaining to work in Washington." But he, too, insisted that he had never been employed to use his political influence. Asked the committee: Just what, then, was his job? As Charley pictured it, he was just a sort of guide and errand boy for Cohen...
...less attention from the Army than cooks. Few cantonments had chapels, and chaplains got neither religious equipment nor other assistance. Officers could assign the chaplains to all sorts of chores-tending the canteen, courts-martial, postmaster, athletic or entertainment director, checking up on mess purchases. Many colonels made virtual errand boys of their chaplains...
...attendance record in Congress. The average was less than a day's absence per year, for 38 years. Any Texan could ask him to do anything and be sure he would try. He was a "typewriter Senator," answering every scrap of mail faithfully, always regarding himself as the errand boy of a great State...
Having girded ourselves for that heroic errand, shall we pause to ask if she will mend her morals? . . . Either she is worth saving as she is and was, or she is not worth saving...