Word: errand
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...excitement lapsed a personage strode aboard. He received a round of cheers from 3,000 louts, touts and riffraff, who had gathered to see middleweight boxer Mickey Walker aboard the Berengaria, and supposed that the personage,Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York State, had come on the same errand. He had not. Kindly, he had come to say goodbye to James Ramsay MacDonald. They had never met, but Mr. MacDonald had expressed keen regret that illness made it impossible for him to shake the Governor's hand at Albany. Instead they met and immediately parted aboard the Berengaria...
...Lowries, when, last week, its author, Paul Green, received a 1927 Pulitzer Prize for his longer work, In Abraham's Bosom. But it was to Mr. Sampson by Charles Lee and The Delta Wife by Walter McClellan, to The Immortal Beloved by Martia Leonard, and The Fool's Errand by Eulalie Spence, that prizes of $200 were given for intrinsic dramatic merit...
...This is the errand. Though a holder of no Harvard degree, my nearly seven years here has made of me a pretty affectionate sort of adopted son. I therefore wish to be on the list of contributors to the Harvard Fund, not because I hope to enrich Harvard in a material way, but simply as an expression of belief...
...discipline, published last week, of fining each school child five cents for each "ain't," "he don't," double negative, etc. The punishment of the child is thus visited upon the parents. One small boy ran up a bill of 40c, obliging his mother to invent eight errands for him to run at a nickel per errand...
Dean C. N. Greenough made the following statement to the committee: "Men who go out for the Red Book will have a pleasant errand which naturally extends their acquaintance among their classmates. Some of these acquaintances will become friends. Moreover, work for the Red Book is something done for the class, for undoubtedly a good Red Book helps to make a united class...