Word: gaffer
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...will be disappointed to find that The Expert is harmless in a different way. It is about a dithering patriarch, his son and daughter-in-law, and a neighboring waif (Dickie Moore)-a profligate adaptation of Edna Ferber's story Old Man Minick. The chronicle of a quavering gaffer who never really enjoyed himself until he got to the Old Men's Home where he could play checkers with his cronies, had possibilities for the cinema which have been firmly overlooked. Minick (Sale) is a pigeonhole grandpa and the picture, mainly composed of watery pathos, has only...
...Here their second child was born, the Princess Margaret Rose of York (TIME, Sept. 1, 1930). The Duke & Duchess were much in evidence at the Golden Wedding last week. Her Grace won the hearts of the assembled clansmen by treading a Highland reel with an ancient gaffer in kilts and sporran, the oldest tenant of the Strathmore estates. The Earl of Strathmore bit his drooping mustache and regarded the celebration somewhat sourly. To reporters the King's Son's Father-in-Law made almost as gloomy an announcement as a man could on his wedding anniversary: "Taxation, local...
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...blue-gummed, henna-bearded gaffer, Jack Horner-like, pulls out a lump. Feverishly he wipes the gluey carrion on a corner of his burnoose. Marshallah! A rose-pink pearl, pale, perfect, which-flesh-embedded-escaped the first casual pawing of the opened shells...
...thus leaving the Government, theoretically, without a majority. The Liberals, on the other hand, put on a bold and blustering front, intended to give the impression that they were sure of being supported by the 27 minority party members: 24 Progressives, 2 Laborites, and 1 Independent, that fire-eating gaffer, the Hon. Henri Bourassa of Quebec, now again returned to Parliament after an absence of 19 years. The situation was rendered grotesque by the fact that the "freak election" threw Premier King out of his own seat in Parliament and reduced him to sitting in the "Visitors' Gallery...