Word: menials
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neighbors' efforts. To no avail. After ten minutes of futile endeavor, he collected his belongings, strode to the door, and handed in his work. As he prepared to leave, the proctor called him back. Slightly perturbed, he returned, and stood, looking. "You have not signed your bluebook," the menial said. And that...
William Stephens is campus correspondent for the Oklahoma City Times and Daily Oklahoman. He had written that University fraternity "pledges" were in rebellion against the "mop-handle bondage" of menial tasks put upon them during initiation. The floggers who punished him for his criticism had assumed the garb of a secret,banned society Rover-boyishly entitled the "Deep Dark Mystery Club...
...They work only in the autumn and mostly in the afternoon. If they are successful, they are rewarded by fame, authority and opportunities to act in cinema. When Howard Jones began his career, such was not the case. Coaches were likely to be underpaid alumni. Their duties were menial. They had few assistants. None of them received adulation for possessing masterminds. First and greatest mastermind of football was, of course, the late Knute Rockne. Any player on a Rockne team was considered a miniature master mind; to have played on a Notre Dame team was qualification to be either...
While 3000 children in Beverly, Revere, and Lynn, attend school under typical New England conditions, a group of University psychological experts, headed by Dr. Walter Dearborn, professor of Education, has been studying their menial and physical growth, tabulating statistics, and rechecking findings with meticulous care according to J. B. Knight, administrator of the psycho-educational survey...
...overdose of strychnine. The only member of the brood who defends her is a blacksheep named Ronnie (Richard Cromwell) who is killed while flying to the trial in which the old nurse is acquitted. She gives her traducers the money she has inherited and is last seen as a menial again, in service with another family, the smallest member of which has just misbehaved himself...