Word: constableship
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Andrew Maloney's grandfather was a coal miner in the Pennsylvania anthracite fields. So was his father, who rose from the mines to a constableship. By the time Andrew Maloney was eleven, he himself was working in the mines. Once, during a shutdown, he studied stenography. A few years later his brother, a Philadelphia telegrapher, obtained work for him as a stenographer and usher in a vaudeville theatre. He went to Philadelphia, was discharged in a week. He obtained work with a sewer-pipe sales agency. The firm failed. He went to work for a metallurgical engineer, learned...
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