Word: mending
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...harness makers, make a waxed end, and repair it. I like to do a little blacksmithing around what is left of our old shop [at Plymouth, Vt.], try my hand again with the carpenter's tools, go out and repair the fence where it is breaking down, and mend the latch on the kitchen door. Most people in this country do these things themselves and do not hire them done...
...which were shipped to customers by sly express, to Beau which contained advertising from eminently respectable tradesmen, such as Cluett, Peabody & Co., Inc. (collars, shirts) and Levy Bros. & Adler-Rochester (good suitings). Casanova Jr.'s Tales, edited by one Francis Page, advertised stimulating material by Aubrey Beardsley, Catulle Mendès and Casanova himself ("hitherto obtainable only in editions costing from $50 to $500"). It republished My First Thirty Years by Gertrude Beasley, with assurance that these charming revelations had been admired by H. L. ("Hatrack") Mencken and suppressed both here and abroad. Two Worlds, braving the mails, offered...
...suave among business men, has become an oracle in the Philippines in less than a fortnight. Filipinos and Moros, little brown senators and big brown generals were curious to hear the personal representative of President Coolidge. Is he a meddlesome quack or is he a saintly surgeon come to mend their wounds...
...athletic situation was taken up by J. W. Hallowell '01, chairman of the committee on athletics. Mr. Hallowell rehearsed the late Harvard victories over Yale and stated that athletics are on the mend. The suggestion of the adoption of the slogan. "Back up Bingham," was received with great applause, as was Mr. Hallowell's account of W. S. Bingham's services to the University...
...after its other business is completed. Perhaps Congress may adjourn as expected in May and the President may call a special session of the Senate to try the case. In any event it would keep numbers of Senators in Washington when they would ardently wish to go home to mend their fences before elections next fall. Incidentally it would afford columnists endless material for jokes about "Vienna bred" and "English as he is impeached...