Word: hire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day the Yale coach story gathered speed. The New York Evening Post printed two columns by Harry Nash who said that Dartmouth hoped to hire Coach Kipke, that some Yale footballers hoped Coach Root would be re-engaged. George Trevor (Yale '15) came...
...finds out to her sorrow from a bad boy, a bad girl, and a bad man. Her first cigarette, her first cocktail, and her first kiss are not followed in quick succession by her first illegitimate child only because her lover has a hundred dollars to hire a doctor. The shock of almost being had by her father on the night after her abortion (a rape is only a rape, they say, but this somehow seems a little more) is too much, and she dies with her penitent pater and no less penitent though virtuous mater at her bedside, resolving...
Englewood. N. J., on the highlands opposite Manhattan, is a community of wealthy burghers, like Banker Seward Prosser, Editor Bertie Charles Forbes, Publisher Bernarr Macfadden, Mental Hygienist Clifford Whittingham Beers, onetime Second Assistant Postmaster General Warren Irving Glover, Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow. Intelligent, they make certain, when they hire servants, that the help are healthy. But they cannot be sure with whom their employes run around on off days. This became shockingly evident when Dr. John Hawkins Irwin, Englewood health director, traced the eye infections and subsequent blindness of several Englewood children to gonorrhea in their nursemaids. So Englewood burghers...
...dues to the local syndicate of his occupation. He need not belong to the syndicate but he is bound by the bargains it makes respecting his wages and working hours or-if he is an employer-respecting the wages he must pay and the terms on which he must hire help (as are U. S. industrialists whether or not they have signed NRA codes). Strikes and lockouts are against Italian law, punished by heavy jail sentences on the theory that syndicates, like gentlemen, can and should adjust their differences without strife...
...situations: Sam Lapowski's El Paso neighbor was one Stevens, pioneer realtor, robust, energetic, a veritable fanatic on exercise which often found vent in "sunrise lawn-mowing." One day Lapowski burst into Stevens' office demanding that he (Stevens) desist from his sunrise activities or permit him to hire his mowing done at a more sane and reasonable hour. In explaining the outburst to the nonplussed Stevens, who was about "to go into action," Lapowski said his wife thought him lazy because he liked to lay abed and every time Stevens went to mowing at "so ungodly an hour...