Word: menials
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nameless horrffr swept over me as I read of the inhumane treatment of Kee Chee [whose sick baby died in a bus - TIME, Nov. 26] and his family. Though these people are illiterate and can do only menial tasks, the breath of life and of free peoples is within them, and they should be treated as such...
Director Vincent Menial, it must be admitted, had a natural to work with. But he has combined excellent dancing, sharp comedy, imaginative photography, and some technically perfect serious music to make it one of the best musicals of the year...
...Penitential-Life. Like other Trappists, those at Coolspring have forsaken all pleasures, occupy just enough space and use just enough food and clothing to sustain a penitential life. Everybody is equal. Even the abbot and the older monks do their share of menial labor. Differences of opinion are settled by majority vote...
Roger L. Butler '51, head cheerleader, bemoaned the situation by saying, "One of the best things of living at Harvard is the elimination of that menial task of bed-making. The one last remnant of gracious living is in serious proximity to death...
Fiction & Fact. Three years later, Richard asked for a divorce to marry Nancy. Mrs. Randolph prescribed for him a fatal dose of tartar emetic instead, and Nancy was kept at her menial work. She was a lot better off the day the self-widowed Mrs. Randolph tired of torturing her and chased her out of the house to earn her own living. Nancy did better than that: she went North, met courtly, wealthy old Gouverneur Morris, and married him-fictionally and in fact...