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...manufacturing fireworks, his daughter (Josephine Hull) turned to painting, then to playwriting when someone left a typewriter at the house by mistake. Grandpa's free-&-easy home was also opened to a pair of happy-go-lucky colored folk, the iceman-a Mr. De Pinna-and the milkman, who had no name of his own so Grandpa buried him under his when he died. Grandpa was never bothered with mail after that...
...places a "fresh air fiend" next door to the candidate. When the windows are opened, the fresh air addict's pet owl catches cold and sneezes into a toy bugle which summons a company of National Guardsmen who think War is declared and, in their haste, upset a milkman and break his bottles, spilling milk which attracts hundreds of cats, whose howling wakes up the neighbors, whose own angry yells and howls the candidate mistakes for the voices of his constituents calling on him to save the country. The candidate thereupon jumps out of bed, throws up his window...
...father. Sythia's grandmother sacrificed part of her funeral money to divert the "career" into a more appropriate job in a beauty parlor. Darthula's nagging drove her beau from a good pedestrian job to a short-lived "position"; when that sank under him and he turned milkman for lack of something better, she broke the engagement. Mrs. Hoe's job grew more precarious; Mr. Hoe's desperate figuring on the backs of old envelopes got him nowhere as usual. When Author Lawrence tots up her human sum she finds a sadder but not altogether wiser...
Married, Penelope Borden, daughter of the late Milkman Lewis Mercer Borden, sister of Chicago Dramacritic Gail Borden II, great-granddaughter of Gail Borden I, who invented condensed milk; and Summitt Edward Boone of Manhattan, in East Hampton...
...Freshman each has been contributed by "a big game hunter, a missionary, a detective, a brewer, a governor a milkman, a state supreme court justice, a ship cleaner, a special agent for federal bureau of internal revenue" (not James Cagney), "a weaver, a mayor, and a welfare director." Whether University Hall's failure to lump this matter with "a Y. M. C. A. director" was accidental or a reflection on Y. M. C. A.'s welfare capacity is not known...