Word: helpers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Born (1891) in Yorkville (Manhattan's Sudetenland), and raised in Brooklyn, Henry Miller spent his young manhood being an employe of Atlas Portland Cement Co., a theosophist, a tailor's helper (in his father's shop), a mail sorter, a Western Union messenger, a speakeasy operator. In Paris, where he settled in 1930 "to study vice," he worked at panhandling and slept on park benches. He also wrote his best work, a swatch of unabashed autobiographical writings (Tropic of Cancer; Tropic of Capricorn and others), and several volumes of second-rate philosophy with first-rate titles (What...
...president of Manhattan's Manning, Maxwell & Moore, Inc. (cranes, hoists, safety valves, etc.). Born a poor boy in Ashtabula, Ohio, Wason got his first job at eleven, worked his way through high school as a janitor. After graduation he worked as a longshoreman, blacksmith's helper and dock hand, and cub reporter on the Ashtabula Independent at $15 a week...
...murder. Kahn turned King's evidence, was freed, disappeared after pinning the murder on Fulker. Michael Fulker was found mentally unbalanced, was finally locked up in the mental wing of Bordeaux Jail. There for 20 years he was a model inmate, worked as a guard's helper. Only once did he get a brief glimpse of Montreal, when a friendly guard let him peep through a telescope...
Clammer's Helper...
...otherwise misled. I read with great interest an article concerning the genus bivalve mollusc, or clam, in your Aug. 20 issue, whereby it would appear some enterprising character named Higgins had revolutionized the time-tested method of clam-digging through the use of a plumber's helper, slush pump, or what have...