Word: errand
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...represented by the bespectacled face of Lauchlin Currie, economic aide to President Roosevelt. Currie went to Chungking early this year, at the invitation of the National Government, to try to unravel its snarled finances, set up a working budget. But his mission developed into a high-powered diplomatic errand...
...curious fact they had unearthed: poverty does not, as in peacetime, lead to crime. On the charge sheet 20 boys were listed in a day, eight of them only 16 years old. All were earning salaries big enough to support a respectable family before the war. Scores of onetime errand boys were doing demolition work at ?4/5 ($17) a week. They gave their mothers $6, squandered the rest on liquor, gambling, girls...
Determined at the age of 15 to become a doctor, Jones happened by pure chance to enter the work in which he passed his life. An errand brought him late one night to a party at which his uncle, a caterer, was in charge. That was in 1886. "I decided then and there," said Jones, "that I would work giving parties like that, and I am not sorry that I made the decision...
...oils, countless lithographs and drawings of fat capitalists, hungry workers, woe-heeled sharecroppers, bashed and bleeding soldiers. His highly-colored, savagely-drawn pictures have drawn praises and commissions from many a bourgeois. (Art-loving capitalists buy his canvases like hot cakes at $750 up.) Today Leftist Gropper (once an errand boy in a clothing store) lives in a nine-room stone house ("bourgeois as hell") in Croton-on-Hudson, drives a big Chrysler...
Lyford, who had spilt acid on a pair of chemistry work pants, rebelled in his own way and threw the pants on the shower floor with the water turned on full. Summoned away from his impromptu washtub by some errand. he was absent for about a quarter of an hour and returned to find langorous waves breaking slowly over the far edge...