Word: hired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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CRADLE SNATCHERS?A slightly nauseous (to some) discussion of three females who hire three young men to flirt with them...
...stay at the best hotels, play any that he chooses of 48 golf courses (riding to and from the links by motor) and return in five weeks, all for a flat sum (unstated in the advertisement). The only extra expenditures he will have will be discretionary incidentals like caddy hire,* new balls, refreshments, etc., etc. The company will warm his golfing cockles. Two such trips have been arranged for by Charles Stewart, Cunard's Boston man, himself a linksman. He has visited all the courses of note that will be used, stubbly St. Andrews, rainy Troon, spacious Gleneagles, lovely Muirfield...
Recently some reporters snapped at this unhidden contempt and made a "newspaper story" of it. And as a result busy, aged Luther Burbank was last week obliged to hire seven additional secretaries to answer with natural courtesy the thousands upon thousands of letters relating to his religious views. A few days later, in a good, substantial California rainstorm, in the face of his wife's restraining pleadings, he motored from his Santa Rosa home, hitting water two feet deep, to San Francisco in order to read an exposition of his views to the congregation of the First Congregational Church...
Automobiles for hire...
...past, professional football ha thrilled the sporting public about as deeply as the national chess tournament. It is a herald of a new era, therefore, to learn that the New York Football Giants, a professional team, have found it necessary to hire a cheer leader and band for their home games. The public, of course, is accustomed to taking its football with a good deal of seltzer in the shape of organized noise, and if sport enthusiasts are to be enticed into transferring their favor from college to professional games, nothing should be spared to make them feel at home...