This same unsensitiveness to routine had enhanced his value with Slocum-Hines from delivery boy at fifteen to second-assistant buyer at twenty-five, an amenability, however, that threatened to pauperize him of any capacity for play.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst
Everything hung upon that insecure thread of official amenability.
"The Law-Breakers"
Ridgwell Cullum
If this Power lodged in the Discretion of a single Person will afford a greater Security against Corruption because of his amenability, why should not the Power of appointing as well as removing Officers be given to him?
"The Original Writings of Samuel Adams, Volume 4"
Samuel Adams