Word: errand
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...Sunday morning late in January, six men bent upon a secret errand slipped into the empty, silent offices of Cosmopolitan Magazine in Manhattan. Doors were locked, keys turned. Thus barricaded against intrusion, Editor Ray Long of Cosmopolitan sat down with five excited assistants to examine the "dummy" of their April number. The first thing they did was tear out the leading article. It was to be replaced by another article, a mystery article that commanded precedence. Plans were cunningly laid, and when Editor Ray Long entrained for California that night he felt that the secret was left behind...
...Last recorded (TIME, Jan. 28), Rockefeller weights were: Senior, 135 Ibs., Junior, 170 Ibs. † Including the Misses Radclyffe (The Well of Loneliness) Hall and Norah C. (The Sleeveless Errand) James, two British spinsters whose books have been recently suppressed...
...residence at the Waifs' Home, got a job as copy boy for the Morning News. Evenings, he hawked papers on Chicago street corners. His father made him come home and go tc school. Six months of that, and he ran away again. Back to the newspapers, he was errand boy for a night editor and did some exhibition boxing. Later, as a sports writer for the Record, he earned as high as $3,000 a year. When the Record and the Herald merged, Writer Hertz was left without a job. So he managed boxers...
With a Baltimore store, Thomas Fortune Ryan went to work as an errand-boy for $3 a week; with William Collins Whitney he was a broker in Wall Street; with King Leopold II of Belgium he developed the diamond fields of the Congo Free State; and with a fortune estimated between one and five hundred million dollars, last week, he died...
...Roller skating is encouraged in the stock rooms of large stores that occupy vast areas. Errand and stock boys and girls are equipped with skates, and besides getting around faster, think of the fun! Marshall Field in Chicago started this. In New York we hear it is done at Altman's and at Macy...