Word: journeyman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Budapest, "Andrassy ut 60," an address usually spoken in whispers, means what "Lyubyanka" means in Moscow: it is th.e headquarters of the Communist secret police. Boss of Andrassy ut 60 was Peter Gabor, onetime tailor's apprentice, who became a journeyman Communist and got his final training in Moscow. Gabor reached the zenith of his career at the trial of Cardinal Mindszenty, where he produced evidence supposedly showing the cardinal's connection with U.S. diplomats. Under Gabor's regime, Andrassy ut 60, whose windowboxes were always bright with geraniums, became dreaded for merciless beatings and torture...
From then on Andy Sheridan was always on the wrong side of the law. He had all the physical assets of a good professional killer-the pasty, expressionless face, the coldly squinting stare and a contemptuous disregard for human life. By 1930, he was an accomplished journeyman killer on the staff of mobster Dutch Schultz. In 1938, Boss Joe Ryan of the International Longshoremen's Association (A.F.L.) put Sheridan on his staff of waterfront goons working with another hired hand, John M. ("Cockeye") Dunn...
Readers who plow through I Wanted to Write may wish that Tarkington had been around to discuss it with Roberts. He almost certainly would have cut out the ten-page list of people to whom Roberts wrote letters in 1935, together with the scores of pages of now-dull journeyman journalism reprinted here in full. He might even have suggested, as Roberts' publisher should have, that I Wanted to Write should be quietly put away in an old trunk...
...Portland, Me., the police chief found some of Erskine Caldwell's writing (see BOOKS) "distasteful," banned God's Little Acre (published in 1933), Journeyman (1935) and Tragic Ground...
...Victor Johnston, a shrewd, silver-haired journeyman politician who last week took over the operation of Stassen's Washington office. He managed the Wisconsin campaign, kept the Stassen memory green in 1944 while Stassen was in the Navy...