Word: handymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disappear. Because distilleries are making alcohol for munitions and synthetic rubber, gin will get scarce; so will some whiskeys. But U.S. liquor stocks on the whole add up to perhaps a sober four-year supply. Most seriously threatened U.S. pastime is travel; most seriously threatened U.S. comfort is servants, handymen, and repairmen (because of the draft and war jobs for women); to the extent that it is real "suffering" for the citizen to have to stay at home more and to do his own house and yard work, the citizen will suffer...
Chambermaids, leaving beds unmade, marched out of the dormitories at 9 o'clock one morning, were joined by most of the university's handymen. A small crew stayed at work in the power plants, keeping Yale lights and heat going, and campus police, who are supernumeraries of the New Haven Police Department, also stood their posts. Said President Charles Seymour, urging students to keep calm: "I don't believe students will object to making their beds. I used to do it when I was a student in the Latin Quarter of Paris. ..." That hardship lasted only...
...General handymen during Graduation Week, the Ushers take part in all Class Day and Commencement exercises and are invited to the annual Senior Spread, it was explained. Their principle responsibilities are to welcome guests, to answer questions, to help ticket takers, and to pass out bunches of confetti at the Class Day celebrations...