Word: menials
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...Franklin Roosevelt. In 1928 he appeared in John J. Raskob's waiting room carrying a brief case full of figures, but that Democratic National Chairman was much too preoccupied to see the hefty young amateur. Hurja's service in that campaign was limited to a few menial political jobs performed for the late Terence F. McKeever, Tammany district leader. By 1932 Hurja knew his way around Wall Street better. Among his acquaintances were such men as Bernard Mannes Baruch, Bernard ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith and Frank C. Walker, Montana lawyer. Mr. Walker introduced Mr. Hurja...
...rulers in unbroken descent from the Son Goddess Amaterasu-O-Mi-Kami, is never cartooned. The very notion freezes pious Japanese to the marrow and members of the Cabinet last week wailed: "This is terrible! Terrible!" Tension was heightened because His Majesty had been cartooned in the lowly and menial attitude of a huckster drawing through the streets a cart on which lay a rolled-up paper supposed to be the Nobel Peace Prize. What Vanity Fair's cartoonist might be getting at was obscure to Japanese, but he had dared to cartoon the Divine Emperor...
Pieter Vos was a sallow, bandy-legged little city boy, who hated his menial job and poor prospects, jumped at the chance to make a pile as a rubber planter. When the rubber company took him on and paid him a month's salary in advance Piet had big visions. They began to get knocked out of him on the boat. He was horribly seasick. The stewards bullied him. His cabinmate bullied him, made him sleep on deck while he entertained a girl below. The reality of the tropics was so much too much for him that he immediately...
...lifetime to the extent of leaving service and opening a restaurant of his own. When he recites the Gettysburg Address, he does so from his heart and the full solemnity of its 266 words is in the bashful quaver of his voice. That this fable of a transplanted menial who becomes hero of a town which he describes as "a remote settlement" is as tender and as softly humorous now as it was when Harry Leon Wilson wrote it 20 years ago, is not due entirely to Charles Laughton's superbly skillful performance as the hero...
...meets the Princess (Kitty Carlisle) in Monte Carlo, it takes him no time at all to learn that she considers radio crooners at the bottom of the social scale. He buys the hotel in which she and her imprudent relatives are living on their dubious credit, impersonates a menial effectively enough to gain his ends...