Word: errand
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...Wood's speculations, had informed General Wood of the fact, and that the speculations had been stopped. They also affirmed that they regarded such heavy speculation by Army officers as very bad policy. Henry B. Thompson, father-in-law of Lieutenant Wood, hurried down to Washington on an unknown errand...
Withal she is a masterful character with an instinctive rather than conscious mastery. The accepted weapons of her sex she disregards. She is on a man's errand and she deals with men manfully. In the cast of 28 characters she is the only woman. Yet when the need arises none can bear himself with a finer masculinity than...
...heaven. He will arrive in his airplane, land on top of his office building and descend in an elevator. Whether there will be a means of saving him the exertion of toddling from the elevator to his office door is not yet clear. But if he has an errand somewhere it will only be a matter of riding to the ground and slighting on the swiftly moving sidewalks...
...representative of the university is a gift from the Gods. There is much to say in favor of a strict merit system until a competition has been won by an unrepresentative personality. But too much is at stake to give a managership to a man that is the best errand...
...each as gardeners and guides, and 11 as musicians. The list of various kinds of positions was not limited to these lines of work, however, but included 39 separate sorts of jobs: accountants, agents, attendants, boys' club workers, care-takers, chauffeurs, choremen, clerks, coaches, companions, computers, correctors, draughtsmen, errand boys, farmers, gardeners, guides, hat checkers, hotel clerks, librarians, monitors, musicians, note takers, proctors, proof readers, readers, research workers, salesmen, settlement workers, stenographers, switchboard operators, ticket takers, translators, tutors, tutor companions, stenographers, ushers, waiters, and several others...