Word: flunkey
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...drawing rooms and the ballroom. To the right is the Ambassador's immense study. Everywhere are paintings of Kings and Queens and the lesser mighty. Only one touch of the incongruous is present and that is when the door of the British Embassy is opened by a flunkey from Spain who has failed so far to assert his mastery over the English language...
...ignominy of it! The whole crowd roared with laughter and someone turned to the flunkey and said, "Initiation." Then he too laughed in my face. I could have killed him! I was told later that he was a British naval captain being given a dinner by the Chamber of Commerce. The capitalistic parasite! When I heard that, I could have made him smart, exposed him before the crowd. But nobody seemed to take any further notice of me, try though I would to attract attention. Fools...