Word: chores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, Lucky Billo engaged in his last big diplomatic chore, lent his official presence to the inauguration of Mexico's new President (see HEMISPHERE). Then, as he went off to relax on the sands at Acapulco, many a New Yorker guessed that he would settle down south of the border for good, to bask in the southern sun and enjoy the admiration of the understanding Latins, and perhaps reflect cozily, like a retired Houdini recalling the box trick, on his old adventures in practical politics...
...tracks and overhead trolley wire from an abandoned line in a Naples suburb. Naples' police rounded up the thieves (they had worked for three weeks in the bright Neapolitan sunshine ripping up the rails, even recruiting hired laborers to help), and wearily set to work on a new chore-patrolling the miles of trolley track still unstolen...
...leading bovine milk producer, and imply that in her thrice-daily milkings, she has succumbed to the machine age. Hazel is not entrusted to the mechanical monsters of the dairy. For the past 13 years (less vacations), Jean Berguery of Pellissier Dairies has devoted himself to the chore of extracting almost nine gallons a day from Hazel's ample productive area...
Getting into a theater should not be such an expensive chore. "Try to get a decent location in a hit show at the box office. It cannot be done. It has driven hundreds of thousands of individuals away from the theater who will not patronize black markets and are not on an expense account." For the Department of Licenses to allow "200,000 to 300,000 house seats from theater owners per annum to get into the hands of special brokers . . . makes no sense. Obviously these are the best seats...
...lawns and shrubberies in the admiration of a highly intelligent wife, two secretaries, a young lady researcher and a pair of French poodles, he went into his study to digest the daily papers. Then, at his desk in bath robe and slippers, he polished off the morning's chore of writing. With the help of the young lady researcher, who has an office on the third floor, he has checked and rechecked his facts. If it is the day for the column to go to press, he has recited the polished sentences into a Dictaphone, and soon they will...