Word: errand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SACRIFICE-Norah C. James-Covici, Friede ($2.50). Novel of suburban realism by the British author of Sleeveless Errand, Jealousy...
...discovered that although he did not know how to pronounce their names customers would pay 10? to hear him try. Then, after a brief career delivering eggs, he went to high school. His teachers were not impressed with his Latin. So Michael Jeremiah Devlet went to work as an errand boy in a bond house. At 16 he was earning $14 a week; at 17, only $5. But he had become a runner. Four years later, when he was a successful bond trader, the biggest and best known government bond house in Wall Street, C. F. Childs & Co., hired...
...doffing and errand running characterized the life of the Harvard Freshman during the eighteenth century, if we are to believe the records of customs of Harvard College written into a copy book by an instructor in 1781 and even then called "ancient...
...been called "Gadfly Cummins" and his journal the "Chronic Hell." Dr. Cummins detests Anglo-Catholicism, helped found the Protestant Episcopal Church League to combat it. When his name was suggested as suffragan to New York's high-church Bishop Manning, Dr. Cummins announced he would be "errand boy" to no bishop (TIME, May 19, 1930). "Gadfly" Cummins has long sought to introduce "referendum and recall" in the Episcopal Church, currently aiming his proposal against Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry. In the early days of The Chronicle, Editor Cummins fought soberly and solemnly. He now fights with satire...
...physician, over the head. Bruno tore his hair, gnashed his teeth, wept because he had no power to use his poor skill on his master; the monks trembled and prayed. News of action came. Byron recovered overnight, set forth with miraculous energy; "I believed myself on a fool's errand from the first," he wrote, but he endured everything, the lies of the Greeks, the embezzlement of his lieutenants, physical sufferings. He sold his English Estates. Not for Argive cowards, but for Liberty, he fought...