Word: menials
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...Ejected from a restaurant, he soon found out what his mother never taught him, that if you were a nigger you were degraded. The thing to do was find a menial job. You could be a "sweetback" (Negro gigolo). Taylor was not, but he was chauffeur, porter, valet. Later he toured with Circusman Ringling. But he was not satisfied. Something new was growing in him now-he wanted to sing the woes of his race. Like many a Negro he felt a queerly mixed hatred and love of his people...
...Ignorance: "Crackers" believe there are only three Negroes: the buffoon, the menial, the criminal...
...trial, which was attended by many persons of large fortune and social inclinations, onetime Governor Miller denounced the monkey and eloquently praised the menial who had murdered him. "Monkeys are wild animals," remarked Nathan Miller, "no game laws protect them, their bites are dangerous and the late King Alexander of Greece died from the effects of being bitten by an ape. This charge is ridiculous. It would be a fine country if property could be invaded by wild animals without any opportunity being provided to stop them...
...longstanding fight of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters to elevate their profession from a status of menial service, for which the traveling public gives condescending "tips," was lost last week. The Interstate Commerce Commission refusing to command the Pullman Co. to prohibit tipping, interpreted the porters' plea as an effort to elevate something besides the status of their profession. "A consideration of the complaint in all its aspects," said the Commission, "leads only to the conclusion that the real objectives sought are increased wages. . . ." The Commission, as every interstate employer knows, has no power to regulate wages...
...that would quicken the pulse of any archaeologist: a bed, probably belonging to King Tut's Queen, supported by strange elongated lions bristling with beaten gold; several large picnic baskets filled with perfectly preserved dates; an ostrich feather fan, chiseled alabaster vases, ushabiti (statuettes religiously reputed to perform menial tasks for the dead). King Tut, as everyone knows, was buried some time before...