Word: hires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ambulance chaser is a lawyer's tout (hireling, doctor, nurse, policeman, friend, acquaintance) who persuades an injured person to hire the lawyer to sue for personal damages...
Rejoined Mrs. Strom, irate: "I run no laundry. I hire no help. I am only a washerwoman. No fault-finding Carrolls can stop me from taking in wash and hanging it out in the yard...
...sees one, knows, too, how not to drape it, is well aware that W. C. Fields is a good box-office name, that Joe Frisco, Ray Dooley, Gordon Dooley, Dorothy Knapp, in one theatre, insure against empty seats. The Carroll formula is simple, the execution elaborate: sign stars, hire lovely female bodies to undulate across stage, buy a few "hot" sketches. Music is nonessential (there is but one worthy song, "Vaniteaser," in the show...
...Some of these American magazines really ought to hire a butler to keep them straight on the question of English titles...
...dance marathon which included an Irish team, a Polish team, a Chinese team, a Jewish team, a Lithuanian team, a Finnish team, a bearded Russian team, a Negro team, etc., etc. Grandstand sections could be roped off for the supporters of each; in each grandstand section the management would hire a band to play the national songs of its occupants, thus making the scene more noisy and pleasant. A flexible system of points for good dancing and demerits for loafing should be instituted; the team which was leading the marathon on points would have the flag of its nation higher...