Word: errand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...washing car windows, when the villain of the piece sidled up to them. "Want to earn some money?" he murmured. "Mail this package for me. I'm in a hurry." He handed them a heavy parcel and three marks. Three marks (70?) was big money for such an errand...
Love Instead of Latin. Sister Clothilde was 28 and had never been kissed, but she was beautiful and well-made. The boy Denis, going on 14, met her when he ran an errand to the local hospital. He felt glowingly attracted to the smiling sister and invented excuses to see her again. Soon the thought of the handsome Denis was invading Sister Clothilde's prayers. She tried to reassure herself: "I love him as a son. There is nothing else. I love him as a mother loves her son." But she had misunderstood her feelings as completely as Denis...
...less reason than most to be happy about World War II and its aftermath. An Allied bullet left his spine permanently and painfully deformed. An air raid killed his wife and only child. The best peacetime job he could find at 42 was that of broom-wielder and errand boy in a Milanese gas appliance factory. Guido's fellow workers left him strictly alone after finding that their most innocent remarks evoked a tirade of resentful acrimony. His bosses found him sullen. They would have fired Guido long ago had not Plant Director Luigi Daniele insisted on giving...
...always had an extraordinary interest in politics. The main trouble with politics is that people in all strata of life have used public officials as their errand boys and office clerks. Another trouble lies in the huge income that a man must have to attain public office." The only way a candidate can get around this, he contends, is to get the backing of some potent, good-government group like the C.C.A...
When Whistler sent his famous Artist's Mother to the 1883 Paris Salon, his bright-eyed errand boy was 23-year-old Walter Sickert. Sickert made the trip count, took a long, penetrating look at the experiments of such French artists as Degas and Manet. Back home in London, he slowly and surely began painting himself out of his place as Whistler's prize pupil into a spot as one of Britain's first & foremost impressionists. Forty of Errand Boy Sickert's paintings on view in London last week showed how good...