Word: chores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While his father reigned and his elder brother gaily globetrotted, Bertie conscientiously studied manufacturing processes and workers' hours and wages (he was president of the Industrial Welfare Society). He was called "The Industrial Prince." His still-persistent stammer made public speaking a wearisome chore, yet on one occasion, while rehearsing a speech at Wembley, he endeared himself to a crowd of startled workmen by stammering into a microphone, "This d-d-damn thing won't work," just as it started working. He played a good game of left-handed tennis, shot golf in the 80s, liked to hunt...
...less heroic in proportions. It called for a special assistant to the Attorney General, with powers only to investigate, leaving prosecution up to Attorney General Howard McGrath. After reportedly being refused by two other eminent lawyers (the late Robert Patterson and former American Bar Association head, Cody Fowler), the chore was accepted by Newbold Morris, a blueblood reformist Republican from Manhattan...
Final examinations start tomorrow and therefore the editors of Cambridge's Only Breakfast Daily must study zealously. In deference to the seasonal chore the CRIMSON goes on a staggered schedule and the CRIME will not slither under doors until Saturday morning...
...have finished most of the work. The remaining chore is to run the two longer pieces of tubing from the bottle to the tin side. This is the cooling mechanism. The longer of the two pieces of tubing runs to the water-container, which you must make or procure and carry in another pocket. Any old flask will do modified to take a small piece of copper tubing...
...statesman's chore done, it became obvious that Tom Dewey was also on urgent political business. He rushed up to Capitol Hill, got a quick lunch and a round of political handshakes, then headed for the office of Pennsylvania's Senator James Duff. In the 1948 Republican Convention, Jim Duff had declared bitterly that he was "for anybody but Dewey." But now the two had one thing in common: they both liked...