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...more common. Few realize that often employers are very particular about securing experienced waiters, for example. On the surface it would seem that any man could wait table. Only last week, however, a call came from a boarding house manager for a fall, erect, neat man with a clear complexion and at least two years waiting experience. This restaurateur maintained that waiting is a highly skilled art which can be perfected only through long practice. He said that a new man invariably permits dirty
...Swick, 27, finished his interneship at Mount Sinai three years ago. He is a tall, muscular young man, with a ruddy complexion, bushy reddish brown hair, blue-grey eyes. He was studious, willing to work nights on an Arbeit (research problem). Dr. Emanuel Libman, always eager to help talent, gave young Dr. Swick funds to study urology in Germany...
...Watson, Gage, Ess, Groner & Barnett. Senior Partner I. N. Watson is the firm's authority on libel. He defended Henry Ford against Aaron Sapiro, Associated with him in that case was Senator Reed, and last week hard-hitting Lawyer Reed was again called in. White-crested, choleric of complexion, a cigar clamped in the corner of his axe-mark mouth, he will glory in fighting once more "for the People." For whatever the merits of the two sides may be, with Lawyer Reed's party's reputation at slake locally (Governor Woodring is a Democrat in Republican Kansas) and with...
...years in the White House have greyed his hair, accentuated the pastiness of his complexion, deepened the lines in his round boyish face, so easy to caricature, so hard to paint. He has worked off 15 Ib. of fat. His health has been uninterruptedly good, thanks to a stern physical routine. Two dozen months of the White House spotlight were enough to generate an embryonic halo about the head of Calvin ("Weaned-on-a-pickle") Coolidge, a previously insignificant politician who had cautiously climbed the Massachusetts "escalator." Two dozen months of spotlight put completely in the shadow Herbert Hoover...
Comrade Menzhinsky is believed to suffer from ulcers of the stomach, and his complexion is sallow. He prefers to work, as so many Soviet officials do, very late at night, and his appointment calendar is always full of things for him to do at three and four a. m. His temper is easily aroused, but he appears to take sincere pride in his work. His job, as he conceives it, is to "Make the World Safe for the World Proletariat." His attitude is as universal as that of the Pope. Wherever upon the face of the earth Capitalism...