Word: handyman
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...application for a pick & shovel job with WPA. He explained that he was down to $15. The application was held up. Reason : he had solvent relatives. Result: he received and turned down an invitation to become a Manhattan professional escort, announced he would start work this week as a handyman at a golf driving range...
Hospital internes on emergency call sometimes have queer cases to.handle in a hurry. Last week in Manhattan, Interne David Wassermann of City Hospital had the queerest one in his four-month career. He found his patient, a small, plucky handyman named Marion Garey, wrapped in elevator cables over the elevator shaft of a 16-story hotel. The cables held the man so tightly that he could move only his left arm. And with this he was dully smoking a cigaret when Dr. Wassermann arrived...
...basic goodness of human nature and the limitless folly of war, are saved in this one through having them spoken by an extremely typical American with a rasping nasal drawl and a fondness for clinches. Heroics, chivalry, and faith are so out of place in this American handyman with his pack of dancing girls, that they come with the freshness of surprise...
...Brown declared that she gave Father Divine $70 of her $80-per-month wages from 1930 to 1935, that her husband surrendered all his earnings as a handyman as well as their jewelry, furniture and savings. Mrs. Brown's explanation: "I paid all this money in the belief that unless I did so I was doomed to everlasting misery and that by giving money to Father Divine I was depositing it in his Heavenly Treasury and was in that way assured of eternal life and peace." But the Browns began getting leery of Father Divine when...
...mouthed Helen Morgan is the hapless Julie, dashing in the satin flounces of an 1885 showgirl, who is forced to leave Cap'n Andy's troupe when it turns out she is a mulatto illegally married to a white man. Paul Robeson appears as the honest, lazy handyman who does little but sing 01' Man River while the camera travels from his calm black face to toiling Negroes, and finally to the broad, rippling Mississippi - in this case the Los Angeles River, widened to 100 ft. by three steam shovels...