Word: cleaner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, one-time errand boy and engine cleaner, last week became the Right Honorable James Henry Thomas, Lord Privy Seal of Great Britain. By his new title the onetime errand boy legally takes precedence over all the dukes of Britain...
...Parmoor, 76, Lord President of the Council; youngest, Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 32, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; average age, 56. Of the new Cabinet, many were self-educated, born in poverty. The Prime Minister was born in a Scotch hut. One of his ministers was an engine cleaner and fireman, one worked in a cotton mill at the age of ten, another's father was a lace designer, one is the son of an Irish laborer. However, five have titles, four went to Oxford, two to Cambridge, three to the military schools of Sandhurst and Woolwich...
...Chicago, Mrs. Helen Johnson sued her Scotch husband, Arthur, for divorce. Claimed she: He would not let her use a vacuum cleaner lest it wear out the rugs; he would wake before the alarm clock's orison to save the spring; on July 4, he bought the children no firecrackers but ran about the house shouting "BOOM...
...portrait of President Coolidge painted by Frank O. Salisbury during the President's holiday at Sapeloe Island. Friends thought it was good, except that Calvin Coolidge never held his head as imperiously as that (see col. 2), and it makes him a lot younger, firmer-fleshed, cleaner cut, than he really looks. That, however, may be what a good portrait should do. Furthermore, as the late John Singer Sargent once said: "A portrait is a picture in which something-is-wrong-with-the-eyes...
...central cleaning establishment of their own, provoked a racket war featured by the introduction of caustic soda containing sodium nitrate in the seams and lapels of garments which, when cleaned, exploded. Then the main racket organization found itself with another war?this time with a prominent dyer and cleaner whom the association had forced out of business. This cleaner, one Morris Becker, opened up again with a new partner. The partner was famed Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, expert in bootlegging and other rackets. Partner Capone has many good friends in Cicero, lawless Chicago suburb; no one was going to beat...