Word: errand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Novel No. 51 on Author Grey's production line, The Maverick Queen, follows traditionally slim, traditionally grey-eyed Nebraska Cowboy Line Bradway on an errand of justice to South Pass, tangles him up with the lady leader ("the Maverick Queen") of a gang of cattle rustlers whom he suspects of his pard's murder. Ultimately it thrusts him into the arms of the queen's innocent niece ("blue eyes set wide apart, dark with excitement, red lips, sweet and tragic, a small bare head covered with golden curls"). Before Line and bride can turn "to face...
...Council constitution should build on the philosophy that the Council must not be a student government or a regulatory body or even an errand-running service organization, but simply an advisory group which can represent student opinion to University Hall. The best work done by the Council since the war has been advisory (the Poskanzer report on Harvard Education is a good example). The football ticket exchanges and forums have been useful, but they have terribly distracted the Council from its primary...
...Errand Boy. Up from Manhattan's "Hell's Kitchen," Duffy, a son of Irish immigrants, virtually grew up with the agency he now runs. After quitting high school at 17, he got a messenger boy's job with newly formed Barton, Durstine & Osborn.† Duffy liked to come in early to slip into the president's chair to see how it felt. After two years of errand-running, he became a space buyer, soon earned a reputation as a digger for facts and became the agency's top media man. When President Barton decided...
...nurse's aide was on duty in Sergeant Paight's room. Ditty waited while her father lay unconscious on the hospital bed. The nurse's aide left on an errand...