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Word: distribes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1934-1934
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Things trouble him. In protest against his boss's fondness for locking doors and tearing down office partitions, he distrib uted among his friends a secret supply of pass keys to The New Yorker offices. Once he held a noise-making contest with carpenters and plasterers by rolling metal trash baskets up & down corridors. Stenographers still remember the day when James Thurber powdered his face white, upset the telephone booth, climbed into it, pretended he was a corpse in a coffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Morose Scrawler | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

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