Word: handyman
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Quiet, diffident Harold Smith still likes to work with his hands; he plays handyman around his brick Colonial house in Virginia, turns out smooth walnut furniture on a power lathe in the basement. His tall, robust wife, who shoots near-championship golf, thinks his mathematics is only good in big figures, never permits him to meddle with the household accounts...
...principle behind the dispute was the same principle which has won Director Kanin, onetime handyman for Broadway Producer George Abbott, his letter in Hollywood after only three years. Earnest and honest in his work, he is a dissenter from the old director's trick of stamping films with a personal emblem like the Lubitsch "touch." The quick Kanin success has been based on the un-Hollywood device of taking the performers' personalities out of a screen play, centering the emphasis on the development of the author's characters...
Harlow has five or six good backs, but there is nothing to get excited about. Captain Joe Gardella, tough-fibred handyman, will fill in wherever he is needed the most; at present that appears to be the fullback spot. Bill Brown will give him what little relief he needs. George Heiden is firmly entrenched in the blocking quarterback position, and Charley Spreyer and Fran Lee will round out the backfield at tail and wingback respectively...
Informed that he had inherited the threadbare baronetcy of his uncle, the late Sir John Henry Lee Fagge, who was a handyman in Pepperell, Mass, till he fell heir to his title, Sir Fred Fagge, of Faversham, Kent, England, downed three beers instead of his customary two, wiped his mouth, announced his plans: to remain a farmhand...
Though Mr. Farley grinned a flashbulb grin as he left the White House, he left behind a chilly Administration silence. Something had changed in the relationship of Handyman Farley and Boss Roosevelt. Thereafter Jim Farley's visits to the White House were infrequent. Last July he went to Hyde Park for a long afternoon's chat with his boss. No one knew exactly what was said, but again something had changed...