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...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...
...efficiently, the policy will help to cure the services of one of their most serious ills. The Jim Crow policy of all the Armed Forces, plus the fact that many Negroes are, through no fault of their own, far below the educational standards for all but the most menial jobs, caused thousands of perfectly capable men to be lumped into miserable duties as stevedores and road-builders...
...Vichy in World War II, now living out his days on the He d'Yeu in the Bay of Biscay, was due for a change. After giving him a routine checkup, his doctors urged his jailers to give him easier living conditions, and cut out all his strenuous menial duties (e.g., cleaning up his own room...