Word: stableboy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert Bell, Wartime groom to Edward of Wales and until last week a stableboy in Ireland, received a black-bordered envelope from Buckingham Palace, joyfully chucked up his job to work for King Edward...
...pious father could not abide him. (I was the first Rounsevell ever to drink, curse and play cards.} From an Irish grandfather he acquired "a sense of humor, a taste for good liquor, a go-to-hell attitude." At 13 he left home, became in turn a farmhand, livery stableboy. book agent, hobo, telegraph lineman, miner, carpenter, banker. In 1913 he swore off liquor, has been a teetotaler ever since. (There are few men who in 18 years enjoyed more whiskey hilarity, exhaled more whiskey halitosis, suffered more whiskey headaches or caused more whiskey heartaches and tears.) For a while...
...concocted and such a Congress is more than apt to go on a rampage, foam at the mouth, kick over many a well-laid plan. The job of gentling the Senate, wiping the foam from its angry mouth and keeping it in harness also falls squarely upon the broad stableboy shoulders of Leader Robinson...