Word: boss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leader Curry came down to the reception room, seated himself in the big "boss" chair of Tweed, Croker, Murphy, Olvany. "This feels good," he purred...
...leader in the Fifth District. He was athletic (hurdles, leaping). He was affable and discreet. He early learned that the foundation of popularity in a crowded community is doing little kindnesses for many people. When he challenged the authority of the Fifth District's aging Boss McMahon, he was so strong that the old man retired before sure defeat. Boss Curry did not crow. He smiled quietly instead, did more little favors, "played the game...
Once they worked for a boss who paid them $8 weekly. Now they are their own syndicated bosses, weekly earn an average of $30. Last week, the city of New York, as it does every two years, auctioned the bootblacking concession. The syndicated polishers sent their banker, one Philip Bernardini, to bid. Banker Bernardini bid $60,300 for the two years, undoubtedly won the award...
Frazier−"looks like a boss butcher...
...letter was sent by M. Poincaré to M. Clemenceau, inviting him in the name of the French Government to attend the funeral of Marshal Foch; but Le Tiger replied to Le Lion that he had already taken leave of Le Patron. French poilus called Foch Le Patron ("the boss") out of homage and respect, reserving the merely affectionate nickname of Le Papa for bumbling old Marshal Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre...