Word: errand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the day, Mrs. Kyner tramps through Rangely's muddy streets selling ads, gathering local news. She calls herself "manager, editor, reporter, errand boy and devil." Often, while writing her stories and editorials, Mrs. Kyner is interrupted by the profane shouts of the town drunks. Rangely has no jail; the deputy sheriff handcuffs prisoners, nails the cuffs to a pole outside the Rangely News office...
With this as a springboard, Elliott-who admitted that he was at the conference solely as "errand boy and drink mixer"-used the rest of his article to damn the British on general principles, Churchill "for his anti-Russian stand," "Washington cocktail-party gossipers" for predicting...
Specimen No. 2 was 52-year-old Walter Geist, a big-boned man with a plowlike face. Geist started life as an errand boy at Allis-Chalmers, also a manufacturer of farm implements; 33 years later he became its president. His habitat is Milwaukee...
...would have been at home in Brazil, land of the needle. Brazilians consider an injection, rather than a pill, the handiest way to cure anything from calcium deficiency to syphilis. Stenographers inject each other with vitamin compounds at tea time. Druggists give shots to customers in back rooms, send errand boys out to needle homebound clients. The charge: 15?. Thus, when the Government last fortnight banned drugstore injections, it threatened the clinical habits of a nation. Grounds: insanitary needles. Real reason: the dope needle was also flourishing...
Died. Julius Salter Elias, Viscount Southwood, 73, onetime London errand boy who became head of Britain's whop ping Odhams Press (the London Daily Herald, The People, John Butt, News Review*), and a peer; of a heart attack; in London. Stumpy, colorless, hard-work ing (often 16 hours a day), "The Little Man" let his publications maintain conflicting editorial policies, specialized in building them to million-plus circulation...