Word: errand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thinly disguised as an emissary of the English-Speaking Union, there has traveled through the U. S. of late weeks a small Semite, suavely overlaid with English polish, whose errand is to tell Americans about the staunch idealism of the British Conservative party. His modest, earnest accents have purred out over eager women's club audiences, Daughters of the British Empire, gatherings of journalists and at various hours and wave lengths of radio...
...current civilization conceives women in business as mere factotums. Yet this woman-she is Mary E. Dillon, in her middle thirties-spent 23 years of apprenticeship with the Brooklyn Borough Gas Co., which she now heads. A girl just out of school, she went to work as office girl, errand girl, handy girl. Alert, energetic, intelligent she kept herself on the go. It was "Mary!" here and "Mary!" there, and Mary went everywhere. She saw other girls get dowdy at their stagnating office work. She saw men grow seedy and baldheaded, take to spectacles and paper cuffs to keep their...
Much resembling the late Sir William Osier in his combination of the highest medical reputation with the surest literary touch, Dr. William H. Welch, aged 75, last week left his modest home in Baltimore, traveled to Manhattan. He went upon an errand dear to his heart, to speak a word which should carry across the distance between scientist and sick...
...upkeep of the school-barn to run along without return? The Bureau of Education found out: "The erroneous attitude of parents in considering it less serious for the younger than for the older children to miss school. . . . Trivial excuses such as 'went to town,' 'ran an errand,' 'got up late,' 'had shoes repaired...
...dreaded hour I knocked at his door, and told him my errand. He stepped into the hall and in a stammering way said. "I hardly know how to begin. Some years ago a man in the Law School died, and for several years his sister used to send me five dollars to give to some student who could not go home for Christmas Day. Recently, one of the men to whom I gave the five dollars returned, and gave me back the five dollars doubled. Now, I wonder if you would feel hurt if I should ask you to accept...