Word: plumber
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...likewise since he is subject to rose fever. At 4:30 p. m., Justice and Mrs. Sanford of the U. S. Supreme Court called. For dinner Mr. and Mrs. Stearns appeared. At 9:30 the cook reported that the cold water tap was emitting steam. Mr. William Buist, local plumber, was summoned. He arrived en flivver with his tools, but was refused admittance by the Marines until his summoning had been verified. Correspondents said that the Marines were suspicious of him because he arrived with his tools instead of coming empty-handed and going back for his tools...
...George Eernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett, and others to the contrary notwithstanding. Mr. Reed is courageous; but, although his volume is not yet on sale; it is a good wager that the average of his selections will fall considerably below the poetic level of those delectable lines on "The Young Plumber of Leigh", which Mr. Bennett, if correctly quoted in the international book Review, puts forward as his favorites...
...great deal further than this simple scientific knowledge suggests. At the present stage of matters, these claims are a press report? no more; and it is well to keep in mind that the press's reports on scientific matters are generally about as reliable and discriminating as a plumber's reports on pharmacy or a cook's reports on literature...
...once discernible--although, unlike cats, all pennies do not look alike in the dark. He may have thought them quarters, in which case his perception and not his business sense was at fault. At any rate, one is relieved to know that he was "not the plumber...
Also wearing the Lollipop uniform to advantage are Gus Shy (comedian plumber); Nick Long, Jr. (altitudinously acrobatic juvenile; Florence Webber (French maid with a Hoboken background); and The Dark Secret. The last is a Negro baby endowed with all the irresistible, if inarticulate, naivete of the pea-coal pickaninny...