Word: errand
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Congress has not complained since. The Senators' traditional snuffboxes and sand-shakers are filled without fail. Bills and documents are promptly distributed, errands are run lickety-split. (New pages are still sent on a fool's errand to find a "bill-stretcher...
...Glyndebourne Opera's Rudolf Bing was relaxing in his Manhattan hotel room before returning to London. He had just finished a business errand for Britain's crack opera company; Glyndebourne's U.S. debut at Princeton, N.J. had been set for autumn 1950, and Bing was well satisfied. Then his phone rang. His faintly accented "Hello" was answered by the mellow tenor tone of the Metropolitan Opera's Edward Johnson. Could Mr. Bing attend a performance as his guest? Rudi Bing said he would be delighted. Last week, operalovers the world over learned that Rudi had seen...
...with its sanded floor. "There were never less than seven of us in the house, and an invalid relative occupied one room," recalls Bevan, now the King's minister in charge of housing. He was an avid reader. As he trudged along Tredegar's streets (as an errand boy for the butcher), he was usually absorbed in an adventure story-Rider Haggard or Baroness Orczy...
...struggle between "cliffhangers" and party progressives. Among the rebels were ex-Willkieite liberals and supporters of Harold Stassen, as well as Bob Taft's and Bertie McCormick's old guard. Hugh Scott's own support came not only from Dewey liberals, but also from the errand boys of Pennsylvania's 86-year-old Boss Joe Grundy, the oldest guard of them...
Last year James Smith, 73, porter at the New York Athletic Club at $31.55 a week, had dropped in on Christmas night on the same kind of errand. This year, from a rumpled paper bag, Smith dumped a cascade of dimes, pennies and other small change that added up to more than $300. Said he: "I'd like for you to give this to the kids at the New York Foundling Hospital...