Word: fitters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Line. In Long Beach, Calif., after being sentenced to five days in jail for damaging telephone equipment, Pipe-Fitter Eugene C. Bennett explained to the judge that he cut his phone wire with a paring knife because "I got sick and tired of hearing my wife talking with her mother for an hour and a half...
...steam-fitter, a House superintendent, a pressman, a photographer and numerous maids and clerks, all of whom have served the University 25 years, will be honored in a celebration to be held this afternoon...
Marlon thought for awhile that he would like to enter the ministry. Talked out of that, he spent the summer of 1943 as a tile fitter in a drain factory (he was turned down for the draft because of a trick knee). In the fall he went to New York to live with sister Frances, then studying painting at New York's Art Students League. After four days as an elevator operator at Best's department store (he quit because it embarrassed him to call out things like "lingerie''). Marlon went to study dramatics with Stella...
When she was well. Eva went back to school, but this time she wore slacks. The headmistress, Miss Fitter, said Eva was improperly dressed, and sent her home. "I wish you could have seen Eva's face," said Mrs. Spiers. "It was red from crying...
...Spiers took Eva to the Education Offices. "I was blazing mad," she said. "They said I should have a woman-to-woman talk with Miss Fitter. I went to see her. Talk about a woman-to-woman talk. She said it was the school rule. I said 'Where is it?' She said, 'They won't allow it.' I said, 'Who's they?' She said, 'The school.' I said, 'What d'ye mean, the school? That's bricks and mortar; it can't talk.' She said...