Word: gaffer
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Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, now a gaffer of 79, emerged briefly from latter-day obscurity when a news photographer snapped him at a Cambridge University ceremony. Only faintly discernible now were the once famed features of England's burly, pipe-smoking Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin...
Rose, who likes to pose as a lovable little gaffer, runs plugs for some of his rival saloonkeepers' shows, admires other space-grabbers ("One of the great showmen of all time is a kindly, pickle-faced fight promoter named Mike Jacobs . . . rates with Barnum, Ziegfeld and Roxy") or endorses the free entertainment of watching Manhattan's public markets and Broadway's fancydancing billboards. He advises customers not to tip his waiters too much, warns "If you are looking for naked tootsies, the Horseshoe is not your cup of tea" (but slyly suggests that the girls are more...
...Owner Hilton planned to rejuvenate the old gaffer. As in his other purchases (TIME, Feb. 19), the cash for the Palmer deal was not all Hilton's. First National Bank of Chicago put up $11,000,000. A syndicate composed of Atlas Corp., City Investing Co., Los Angeles friends Frank Freeman and Willard Keith, and other friends in Chicago and Texas put up another $8,000,000. But brisk Mr. Hilton will run things, expects to do well. Said he with satisfaction: "At the price, we got a very good...
Prince Jorn bravely attacked a terrible knight in black armor, who turned out to be an invalid gaffer, dressed up. Then he gathered the one thousand precious cherries he had picked from the orchard of the fearful Mok-Mok, who was stuffed, and had birds' nests in his eyes...
...county regiments-the Dorsets, Devons, Durhams, York and Lanes-and the Scots and Welsh Border regiments marveled at this gaffer of the old Army, admired him in the usual unprintable phrases, gave him a cheer. They had fought their way through mountain jungles; tough fighting lay ahead before the last Jap would be driven from Burma. But they were in lush valleys...