Word: factotum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...corporate title the "& Sons" is far from being a fiction. The four Smith boys now run the business, Jay as President, Bernard as Engineer, Owen as Buyer, Hamilton as General Factotum. Jay, who resembles his father but is more businesslike, was a real water baby. He ran passengers in his father's launch before he was old enough to start the engine; his aquatic stunts earned him the title of "the baby water wizard." As Gar Wood's mechanic he won many a race in boats built by his father.* Chris-Crafts tenders are popular among yachtsmen (General...
...background. Seldom has his name appeared in print except, during the 90's, in the sport news. He used to be an able tennis racqueteer. His background is Quaker, and old New English. His father, Arnold Buffum Chace, is chancellor of Brown University. The Chace spokesman, figurehead and factotum...
...hearted and at times understanding to a degree which surprises one without it being improbable, the presentation is excellent. Mayo Methot as Florence Wendell--later Mrs. Fairchild--is scarcely less good, and, moreover, is exceptionally lovely to look at. And Mrs. Jacques Martin as the old nurse and general factotum around the apartment supplies much of the humor, and does it very acceptably...
...Fifty-seventh Street called the Granada Grill are falling on the neck, quite literally, of the rotund black doorman resplendent in new maroon uniform and gold-toothed smile. For it has turned out he is none other than Terry of beloved memory, for nineteen years clerk and general factotum of the Dean's office in Cambridge and famous for his memory of students' names and faces...
...Raingo but the wealth of this book lies in the subtle asides of the two fictitious figures and in the host of minor characters that surrounds them: Sam's dour man-of-all-work, Wrenkin; Andy's idolized, pious old mother; Sam's business factotum, Swetnam; a mystical middle-aged stenographer, Mrs. Blacklow, "the most explicitly expectant mother in fiction...