Word: factotums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleasant young women who are graduate nurses and serve as hostesses on U. S. airlines are a fixed institution of the air and are considered a profitable investment by their employers. U. S. railroads, long addicted to the Negro porter as a factotum, have seen the signs of the times...
...Burton was president of his high-school class and editor of the student magazine. From his experience as newspaper carrier he evolved a more efficient scheme for handling deliveries, soon became a factotum in the newspaper office. As assistant in the public library, to him for advice came worried clubwomen with literary papers to write; soon he had a strictly private little business of ghostwriting. By the time he had graduated from high-school no one was surprised that hardworking, bright young Burton Rascoe had decided to go on to the University of Chicago...
WILL SHAKSPERE: FACTOTUM AND AGENT - Alden Brooks - Round Table Press ($3). Somebody else tries to prove that Shakspere, the country cutup, could not have written Shakespeare's plays and poems. Iconoclast Brooks says the real "Shakespeare" was a syndicate (Marlowe, Lyly, Greene, Peele, Nashe...
These three men were selected by the 250 odd members of P. B. H. out of a panel of nine Juniors. Kaltenborn has been chairman of the Foreign Student Committee during the past year and is a member of the present cabinet, headed by Raymond Dennett '36, retiring factotum...
...Authors. Helmuth Carl Engelbrecht, Columbia Ph. D., 39, pacifist, associate editor of The World Tomorrow, met Frank Cleary Hanighen, Harvardman, 35, then editorial factotum with Publisher Dodd, Mead, last autumn, discovered a mutual interest in munitions makers, decided to collaborate. Each had already written one book: Engelbrecht, a study of Johann Gottlieb Fichte; Hanighen, a biography of Santa Anna. Roving Newshawk George Seldes, brother to Litterateur Gilbert Seldes, has taken the lid off many a pot of trouble, stirred it with journalistic zeal. Onetime reporter on the Chicago Tribune, he has dabbled in Art, is now a freelance, has written...