Word: gaffer
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...receiving pensions-of $8 per month. Another ten years passed before all Continentals who had served to the war's end were pensioned to the full amount of their service pay. Thus the post-Revolution U.S. began the persisting practice of waiting until the veteran has become a gaffer before giving him effective help...
...Circle gently caricatured the Brotherhood's esthetic antics, helped keep their memories green. Sir Max, one of the keenest wits and sveltest exquisites of the 1890s, came into the late Victorian world when Oscar Wilde was just a lily-loving boy and Dante Gabriel Rossetti a doddering gaffer. Now something of a gaffer himself, Sir Max celebrated his 70th birthday last fortnight with London's Maximilian Society, a club formed and named in his honor...
Then Dramatic Critic Alan Dent, who organized the party, presented Sir Max with 57 bottles of old wines. Sir Max blinked happily, remembered his neighbors in Abinger, the Surrey village where he now lives, said: "What will the villagers think now of old Gaffer Beerbohm...
...while he kept his promise, and contented himself drinking ale with Gaffer Sitherthwick and John Willie Braithwaite in The Spread Eagle and with explaining the mysteries of politics to a delightful collie bitch (who could talk). Then war caught up with Sam. As an auxiliary constable, with the help of an affectionate hound and a length of lead pipe, he caught two Nazi spies; later he felt forced to use his forbidden talent once again, to save England. In the course of that adventure he had to talk to Hitler ("Heil you!" said Sam, "Heil me!" Adolf replied) and, before...
...misery loves company, young Boudreau can shake hands with John Bernard ("Hans") Lobert, the Phillies' new manager. Lobert is a big-nosed, bighearted, bowlegged little gaffer, dubbed Hans because in his early playing days he resembled and tried to imitate Immortal Hans Wagner. He has 39 years of baseball behind him. But it will take more than experience to shove the Phillies out of the National League cellar. Reason: in order to keep the club from the sheriff, its owner, Gerald Nugent, is forced to sell his most promising players...