Word: factotum
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...father William was a frequent gambler and political factotum from the capital's North End, the textures and tones of which fill all of Kennedy's work...
...lived in it for close on 30 years, acquiring more rooms, filling them up. By now it is the hive of the queen bee, where Nevelson presides over a small force of workers: carpentry and joinery assistants who help with the sculpture, and her archivist, friend, photographer and general factotum Diana MacKown. Nevelson still leaves it often enough to be a near legendary sight in Manhattan's galleries and shops, and an enduring staple in the pages of Women's Wear Daily. She likes to swathe herself in costume and go to parties; she dislikes cooking for herself...
Like a canny Hollywood factotum, Playwright Innaurato has followed Gemini with Gemini II. Again, he writes about an Italo-American clan at warmer than room temperature. The emotionally suppurating wounds are redder than the red badge of self-exonerating cowardice...
...other was a quiet, hulking former schoolmate named Ida Baker, a sort of Alice B. Toklas in search of a Gertrude Stein. Ida was never Mansfield's lover, but she attached herself as factotum, confidante and nursemaid. To Mansfield, these ministrations were occasionally suffocating but ultimately indispensable. She sometimes referred to Ida as her wife...
...when Sears was cashiered. He came back and held a press conference in the National Press Club, perhaps the first time a campaign factotum was elevated to such status. He had been judged until then almost as much a part of Reagan as Reagan...