Word: plumber
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remainder of the entertainment is exactly what Stone's followers for 21 years have been trained to expect. Dorothy Stone is the poor girl; she marries the disguised Prince. Father Fred is Peter Plug, a plumber, who stands by in every scene to protect her from the villainous hardships set upon a musical comedy heroine. Mother Stone (Allene Crater) also plays a prominent part and marries Peter Plug at the last-to the wild delight of the audience...
...coat and trouser idea." In Washington, D. C., the Department of Commerce (whose function it is to advertise foreign trade openings for American business men) received a request from Sweden for a monthly delivery of 15,000 to 20,000 bunches of bananas. In Delmar, Del., George Morris, a plumber, was obliged to dig a hole under a house. Crawling in, he felt a stinging sensation on one arm, felt something wrapping itself around his leg. Investigation showed that Morris, who was later removed to a hospital, had invaded the lair of 27 fierce snakes. On behalf of the town...
...American Construction Council surveys the entire industry. And gradually it is evolving a code of construction ethics, so that eventually the plumber will cease to be the classic example of robbery-within-the-law. Simultaneously, the Council is educating the 99,000,000 people who are not constructors or constructor's wives. In normal times it teaches them, for instance, when to build, when not to. Apartments and office buildings must be built according to renting seasons which for the first is October, and for the second, February. But public buildings, private houses, industrial plants should be built...
Leagues,--unions,--associations appear to control the destiny of everyone from the wealthiest plumber to the most brow-beaten President. So one is not surprised to find the Liberal Clubs of the world banded together in a Forum for self-defense and effectiveness. Furthermore, their coming "Symposium" is another of the "conferences" which grow more and more popular--where everyone brings forth his grievance and draws comfort from the troubles of the rest...
...Platagravia, Newcomb Fuller '24King of Platagravia, A. A. Fiske Jr. '22Overrunner of the King of Czecho-Khorsaat, C. C. Carpenter '24King of Czecho-Khorsaat, J. F. Brown '22Reginald Beacon, a Shining Light from Boston, C. A. Gage '22Gloria, a Swiss Flower Girl, Paul Mendoza '23Mr. Everett Piper, Millionaire Plumber from Kansas, C. C. Macomber '22Mrs. Piper, L. B. Ellis '22Agnes, their daughter, P. B. Ferguson '23A Rustic, C. C. Carpenter '24A Troubadour, J. F. Lautner ocC.Louis Pierre de Soupe-Hibbon, Albert Palmer 4E.S.An Orchestra Leader, H. E. Scott Jr. '22Admiral of the Swiss Navy, Newcomb Fuller '24A Patriarch...