Word: milkman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came the lights. Near the screen in person sat the milkman. Harold Roller, his head bowed. On trial for the robberies, he had maintained his innocence. The jury retired, deliberated 14 minutes, pronounced him guilty...
...sake of the novel, Skippy s friends and relatives had to be given last names. So his mother is Mrs. Skinner and some of the others are collar buttons, Hecky (personification of juvenile persistence), Sooky (pathetic phlegm), Carol Sharon (Skippy's girl), Milkman Lovering. The place they live in is called Morrisville. The plot is Skippy's show, BULL RUN (admission by collar buttons), his troubles at school, his baseball team, his blood-curdling threats and how he loves Carol Sharon...
Author Crosby's social thesis is a protest against the urbanizing of Morrisville. Milkman Lovering is his spokesman about the beat of the hammers building new subdivisions, changing the plan of Morrisville from an H to a symbol from some oppressive foreign alphabet. Milkman Lovering gets supplanted by the milk trust. A department store replaces Mrs. Barkenteens, where Skippy bought the "chawklets." Mr. Prince, a city man, gives Skippy's ball team uniforms-emblazoned to advertise real estate...
Archibald Robertson Graustein has always been a prodigious person. Son of a German-born Boston milkman, he graduated from grammar school at 11 and entered the Cambridge Latin School for Boys. As a tribute to his small size his new schoolmates promptly stuffed him into an ash can. At a slightly more advanced age he got through Harvard-in two years, with Phi Beta Kappa, the John Harvard Scholarship and, on his diploma, summa cum laude. A little after that he passed from the Harvard Law School to the prominent Boston law firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden & Perkins. With...
...Story. Escaped from board school, with three Shakespeare plays as the sum of his knowledge, Edgar Wallace drifted from newsboy to sea-cook and back again. He worked for a milkman, a florist, a printer, a mason; turned up in the Army while still in his 'teens. In South Africa he resigned from the military in favor of newspaper work, and during the Boer War coded many a scoop to his London paper, much to Kitchener's embarrassment and the censor's discomfiture. The war over, Wallace was appointed editor of the Transvaal's largest newspaper...