Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter" being ultimately composed of whirling particles of immaterial electricity). He ended by predicting "revolutionary" scientific discoveries in a spirit-world that surrounds the one we know. "Mercifully, things are screened from us that we may go about our business and do our daily work. That is our job for a time. . . but . . . we are surrounded by a cloud of witnesses and a company of helpers in a marvelous spiritual world." Unlike his radio lecture of 32 years ago, Sir Oliver's remarks were unaccompanied by a demonstration; but for a decade he has been investigating, preaching spiritism...
...guidance of "Boss" Roger Sullivan, became the heir apparent. "I can't say I deserved Roger Sullivan's mantle," said Brennan, "It just fell to me. . . . The job of boss was a big jackpot and I happened to be the only man around the table who had openers." "Boss" Brennan occasionally takes a little time off from poker, pinochle, politics, and business to read good books. It was in 1920 that this pinky-bald, bushy-eyebrowed, double- chinned, portly humorist first began to be a source of power and worry to the Democratic national party...
...considerable tools or luggage be- sides. It had extra high gears. It was battered, dented and per- forated with the marks of a hundred unguessable expeditions. Ac- tually quite innocent, it seemed to symbolize the spirit of what the Ohio underworld casually refers to as "the Mellett job...
Eugene O'Neill's unproduced manuscripts are various. Those most likely to reach the stage this season are a dramatization of the book of Job, a play called Marco's Millions, and a third called Lazarus Laughed...
Banker Van Vetchen, born in Michigan but reared in Iowa, once wished to be an author himself. But he was detoured from his yearnings by getting a job in a bank. The dignity from which he is now taken was the senior vice presidency of the Continental and Commercial National Bank of Chicago, whose only rival for the rank of greatest Chicago bank is the Illinois Merchants Trust...