Word: errand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This is the errand. Though a holder of no Harvard degree, my nearly seven years here has made of me a pretty affectionate sort of adopted son. I therefore wish to be on the list of contributors to the Harvard Fund, not because I hope to enrich Harvard in a material way, but simply as an expression of belief...
...discipline, published last week, of fining each school child five cents for each "ain't," "he don't," double negative, etc. The punishment of the child is thus visited upon the parents. One small boy ran up a bill of 40c, obliging his mother to invent eight errands for him to run at a nickel per errand...
Dean C. N. Greenough made the following statement to the committee: "Men who go out for the Red Book will have a pleasant errand which naturally extends their acquaintance among their classmates. Some of these acquaintances will become friends. Moreover, work for the Red Book is something done for the class, for undoubtedly a good Red Book helps to make a united class...
...Hammonds, executive secretary and confidential adviser of the Governor (TIME, March 7). Talk, however, still comes out of Oklahoma concerning the Governor's matronly secretary with whom he is said to plumb spiritualism, occultism, Rosicrusianism. The latest report is that she calls the Democratic State Chairman her errand boy. Meanwhile her husband, Dr. Hammonds, churchgoer from Okmulgee, enjoys pay as State Commissioner of Health...
...discloses also the royal widower's conceit to take a second wife. Aelfrida, daughter of the Thane of Devon, famed for beauty, is in his mind. With Saxon stolidity, however, he withholds decision until assured that the lady, whom he has never personally inspected, merits her reputation. On the errand of verification and summons (if justified), he despatches his loyal foster-brother, Aethelwold (Edward Johnson), whose attitude toward ladies is thus described: "Should a wench but breathe upon him in the dark, he would bury himself till the smell of her were off him." Aethelwold rides off on his mission...