Word: handyman
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...guided the forces of Pennsylvania's conservatism for nearly half a century. Uncle Joe is quite deaf, scorns such contraptions as hearing aids, and conserves his energy. While he planned the strategy for his camp this week, the tactics were in the hands of his handyman, National Committeeman G. Mason Owlett, who doubles in brass as president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. Grundy, Owlett & Co. were working for the nomination of Tom Dewey...
String-pulling in Washington and Oregon ended the threat to the Toon's use of the mails as swiftly as it had begun, however, when "Big Bob" Handyman, postman, succumbed to an attack from a winged fleet of Ibismen...
With Ike were his wife, onetime Democratic Handyman George Allen and his wife, and William E. Robinson, executive vice president of the Republican New York Herald Tribune. They had come to Augusta for a vacation. They stepped into a waiting car and were whisked away...
Reminders of the Past. Roy Roberts left the Star building before midnight, piled himself into the front seat of his 1946 Pontiac. Harvey Anderson, his Negro chauffeur-handyman, was waiting to pick him up. Roberts, who has a nickname for everybody, calls Anderson "the Senator" because he is a precinct-worker for the good deeders...
...baby sitters, run a Help Wanted ad. Result: one Lynn Belvedere is hired sight unseen. To their dismay, Lynn turns out to be a middle-aged male (Clifton Webb), who coolly describes himself as a genius. He is also a polysyllabic practitioner of yoga, and easily the most versatile handyman since Leonardo da Vinci. Before he is done with solving problems and subjugating parents, he fries the whole community...