Word: plumber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With four straight victories under its belt, the Crimson eleven rose to twentieth place in this week's Associated Press poll of the leading teams of the 1946 season. The plumber twenty spot represented the highest rating reveived by any team in New England...
...decided to be an architect. After a year at Kansas City Junior College, where he got in trouble for firebrand editorials in the school paper, he worked for two years as a plumber and draftsman in Chicago, saved enough money to study architecture at the University of Illinois...
Cluny Brown (20th Century-Fox), the mildly daffy niece (Jennifer Jones) of an English plumber, can't keep her helping hands off defective drains no matter what the social circumstances. In fact, she seems incapable of learning "her place." This combination of ability and inability becomes acutely embarrassing when she goes into service for one of the better county families (Reginald Owen, Margaret Bannerman and Scion Peter Lawford...
...Iturbi, warm-blooded conductor-pianist, shaved & bathed in cold water for a few days, then took action against his Los Angeles plumber, who had his hot-water heater. The plumber, charged Iturbi, hadn't carried out a repair job as promised, but demanded $50 before he would return the heater. The chattering maestro sued for $3,000 damages...
...sketches, find dozens of props, discard, replace, assemble, "hang" and light. "I like to brood," sighs Mielziner, "and there's no time for brooding"-only 100-hour work weeks in which "one minute you're creating magic, the next minute you find yourself serving as a practical plumber or making a four-ton set disappear...