Word: menials
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...hospitals, the R. N.s insist, their budgets would not be increased by dispensing with their nursing schools and hiring graduate nurses at $50 a month and keep to do the bedside duties now performed by student nurses. For the menial duties of the student nurse the hospital would engage regular servants at $40 a month, the cost being offset by closing down its nursing school...
Gill: Well, we had one thing, called "sitting on the bench.". . . The men had to sit, all their leisure hours, on a bench outside the office, and be on call for menial work around the place...
Myron and Ora Weagle, sons of a small-town hotelkeeper in Connecticut, are as different as brothers can be. Myron is a conscientious worker whereas Ora fancies himself as a poet. When they leave home, Myron is content to get an even more menial job at another hotel, but Ora drifts to Manhattan, his idea of Parnassus. Step by step, but with a fatherly eye more on priggish Myron than on piggish Ora, Author Lewis reports their slow, vicissitudinous careers. Ora finds the fleshpots of Greenwich Village agree with him. He writes one good but unsuccessful novel, the fruit...
...They let him proceed to ridicule the myths of "Teuton supremacy" in ancient times-myths, said His Eminence, which, even if taken at their face value, show the earliest and purest Teutons to have been slothful, self-indulgent, quarrelsome and degraders of women whom they condemned to the lowest menial tasks. Only a cardinal, a Prince of the Church, could get away with such talk. Storm Troopers recently arrested a priest for saying mass over six Communists whose heads were about to be chopped off, another priest for "disparaging the Nazi movement,'' a third for holding a Catholic...
...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...