Word: hand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Breuer had designed the museum's demonstration house to sell for $27,475, not counting the land, the furniture (which he also had a hand in) or the architect's fee. By lopping off the garage and one of the three bedrooms, the job could be had for about $21,960, which would still seem pretty steep to the typical "middle-income family" that Breuer had in mind...
...next day, Avery got a shock. Vice President Willard Sahloff, Avery's right-hand man and the only vice president left, also handed in his resignation. Avery could not call Sahloff a "conspirator"; he had made Sahloff a vice president after Norton left, and praised him highly. Last week, Avery revised his estimate. Said he: "Sahloff was not an important man ... I am very glad his weakness made itself apparent now." Sahloff promptly got a job as president of Milwaukee's National Enameling & Stamping...
...secretary, Bessie Mathews, and her hard-working brother, Luther, who tends bar at a hotel in Citrus City and later goes to work in a shipyard. Author Moon writes of people like Luther with great warmth of insight and a fine ear for inflections of speech. On the other hand, there is something a little too Galahad-like about the radical Negro intellectual, Eric Gardner, whom President Rogers is finally called on to defend against Cal Thornton...
...they could not afford them at Paris' better saloons. But they watched with amusement as 18 of the capital's top bartenders gathered last week for a cocktail-mixing contest in Paris' Hotel Continental. As the competition went on the proceedings got somewhat out of hand, and befuddled professional interest became intense when one of the contestants tried mixing his ingredients directly in the consumer...
Nominees wishing to run must file formal acceptances, brief biographies, and pictures at the Council office in Phillips Brooks House before 5 p.m. Wednesday. Other aspirants must also hand in a petition with at least 25 signatures at the same time...