Word: glazier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cooganing." Charles Spencer Chaplin made Jackie Coogan by co-starring him in The Kid. Therein Jackie ran ahead throwing stones through windows. Charlie followed as a glazier, repaired the windows, reaped comedy pelf. Last week The Kid was shown at the millenium-old Hartz Mountain village of Wernigerode, seat of an academy for hochgeboren young ladies. The young ladies were not allowed to see The Kid, but soon their windows tinkled in fragments as did many another. No glazier appeared, but subsequently one Thanhauser Rothschild, insignificant insurance agent, was arrested and confessed to "Cooganing" the windows after viewing...
About 1834 Smith's licentiousness grew so pronounced as to threaten the existence of the Church, which had grown to be a fair-sized organization. Brigham Young, Vermont painter and glazier, who had been baptized in 1832 and soon afterwards ordained elder, made his influence felt by his " indomitable will, persuasive eloquence, executive ability, shrewdness and zeal,'' and was ordained one of the " twelve apostles " who were sent out in 1835 as missionaries to the " gentiles." He was given the title of "The Lion of the Lord...