Word: gaffer
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...greatest grape crop in California's history, 2,409,000 tons, including raisin and table grapes-and the Wine Institute had just reported to its members that the U. S. will this year drink 63,000,000 gallons of California wine-two quarts for every man, woman, gaffer & gammon in the country...
Governor McMullen and Senator Hughes of Delaware came to see the ceremony when Judge Joseph Buffington, at 81 the oldest man on the Federal bench, inducted Youngster Biggs. The affair could not have been more amiable. In the first place Judge Buffington is no gaffer. He still keeps a medicine ball in his chambers which he delights to jam into the abdomens of elderly colleagues. He was married to his third wife only six years ago and still likes to go occasionally to a night club. Moreover, he remembers that he also got his start in politics at a convention...
...picturesque gaffer, who traveled for years about California in a cart drawn by three burros, 74-year-old Peter Voiss supplemented the meagre income he made from prospecting by posing for snapshots. Two months ago, when Dentist Jasper Gattuccio refused to pay for taking a picture, Prospector Voiss shot him dead (TIME, May 11). On trial for murder last week, the whiskery oldster sat calmly in a San José. Calif, court while his attorney argued: "Dr. Gattuccio brought about his own death by stealing an old man's living for his own amusement. . . . The only home...
Near San Jose, Calif., Dentist Jasper Gattuccio came upon a rickety old cart drawn by a brace of burros, saw in it a picturesquely gnarled, full-bearded gaffer, delightedly got out his camera to snap a picture. From the wagon jumped Peter Voiss, 74, to collect a 50? fee, explaining that he eked out his meagre income as a prospector by posing for pictures. Dentist Gattuccio refused to pay, took the pi:ture, later returned to take another. As Jasper Gattuccio clicked the shutter, Peter Voiss reached into his wagon for a shotgun, shot him dead. Prospector Voiss was bundled...
...Abram Kean is no gaffer doddering over his memories by a cottage fireside. Last week from the desolate ice fields off Labrador flashed the news that Captain Kean, having piled 4,000 sculps aboard his ship Beothic that day, had become the first skipper in history to bag 1,000,000 seals...