Word: flunkeyism
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Democratic politicians of Boston stood in the rain before the portals of the aristocratic Union Club on Beacon Hill, one night last week, asking a liveried flunkey if it were really true that Alfred Emanuel Smith was a guest at a private dinner being given by 40 Brown Derby members of the Harvard faculty and corporation...
Gleaming, silent, a grey limousine crossed the huge square before the House of Parliament at Budapest last week, and drew up at the massive portal. A flunkey opened the door and out stepped a man clad all in black. Four blazing diamond brooches held in place the sole ornament of his costume, a green sash across his breast. He was the Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg, claimant to the Hungarian Throne (TIME, Jan. 24 et ante...
...Lampoon was grilled in Arthur's restaurant yesterday. The veteran flunkey of the Lampoon building was raked over the coals by Cambridge sleuths and cleared of all changes following an unauthorized smoker held early yesterday morning in Arthur's Smoke Shop, which resulted in the theft of accessories necessary to the worship of Lady Nicotine...
...alarmingly shabby individual rushed from the Chambre des Députés, and sought the Quai d'Orsay (Foreign Office) nearby with swift nervous strides. As its portals flashed open before him, he tossed his battered felt hat to a flunkey and bellowed questions and commands in a rich throaty voice. Almost before the Foreign Office secretaries could answer or obey, he had seized his hat again, jammed it down over his thick mane of hair and rushed back to le Chambre. The individual who thus hectically disported himself throughout the week, was, of course, M. Aristide Briand...
Death pursues the meddling flunkey...