Word: hire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manager Willy-wee Calfee of the Lampoon told the CRIMSON last night that he will use the proceeds from the Vogue issue, reported to be in the neighborhood of $1.21, to hire a horse-drawn vehicle to take the rival teams to Soldiers Field at 3 o'clock...
...social ideals and to insure fair treatment for any reform or any reformer who is obviously honest, reasonably intelligent and backed by any considerable minority of the public. How can this be done? How can the newspapers become open-minded? I don't know. They might try to hire as doorkeepers in the house of the Lord on copy desks and in editorial chairs men who are free to make decisions . . . not controlled by an itch to move to the next higher desk by pleasing his High Potency who sits in the mahogany paneled room in front...
...pump. The Virginians got so dirty (I did not say thirsty) for lack of water, that George was figuring how to fix it, when a "Good Neighbor" from Hide-out Park happened along, named Fuddy-Duddy Rosey. Said he, "All that pumps ever need, is priming. So I will hire 10 million able-bodied men to carry water in cute little May-baskets, from the Privy, Treasury to prime it." So he primed it for seven years. When it still did not work, he said, "I will not let my people down; I will prime for 70 times 7 years...
Diminutive little Assemblyman Francis X. Coyne of Dorchester, sponsor of a bill to tax the real estate of Universities which hire communists or fascists, was at the station to greet the actress as she get off the train in orchids and gray foxes
When an industry wants to put its best foot forward, it is likely to hire a man with a knack for public relations. This man the newspapers will refer to as TSAR. Prime examples: the cinema industry's Hays, baseball's Landis...