Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shirt stud has been kept by order of Alexandra exactly as Edward VII left it. Last week, Queen Mary, in the absence of George V who was hunting in Scotland, ordered and superintended a thorough cleaning preparatory to complete redecoration of this so-called "secret bed chamber." One good job done, Queen Mary passed to another locked bedroom door. Impassive but expectant the royal attendants waited. Would Her Majesty order that room disturbed? On the bureau had lain undisturbed for more than three decades a little pile of silver and copper coins. They had been left there carelessly by Prince...
...police asked Emanuel Silberstein his occupation. "Selling wine to Negroes," he answered, smiling. He told them he was glad he had "done the job well." They found cyanide of potassium in his pocket and again he said he was glad that he had killed "the old man" instead of himself...
...enfant terrible of Wall Street, "a comer," who has "come," a dollar-genius brilliant enough to negotiate the sale of Dodge motors last year for $146,000,000 cash, yet sufficient ly orthodox to declare: "There is no advice you can give a man except this: 'Do your job better than that job has ever been done before.' " The absorption of a mere ten million gold marks of Diskonto Gesellschaft paper, last week, was in sober truth mere routine for Dillon, Read, who have placed $85,000,000 of securities for the Government of Brazil...
...manufacture-a grave, photographed face, under which have been drawn a midget body, arms, and legs. Power often lives most bristlingly in little men. Mr. Wiley gives one immediately a sense of power, poised and acute. He has spent his life, beginning with a three-dollar-a-week job on a Rochester paper, in newspaper offices. He has more social contacts than his associates; he is often seen at smart parties, gravely watching from a portière, or dancing with a lady larger than himself...
...French soldier's. One day last week he dropped in on Mayor Walker and through an interpreter-for the young man is entitled to his mustache, and speaks none but his native language-told his grinning host that he, too, had been a mayor once but found the job too difficult. Mayor Walker ejaculated: "I am surprised you didn't make a good mayor! A mayor is up in the air a good deal of the time! Ha ha!" This was a jovial pun, for the Mayor's guest was no other than the Allied...