Word: plumber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...FISHING Plumber's Helper
...full of you." Of five-month-old Gloria: "Then she look like me? I dont like because I am offly ogly and always . . . hope to made another yourself!" From Mexico City he promised: ". . . Never more I will leave you. When I came back I will bring you to a plumber and let him put a ring which will enchain your leg to mine." When he learned that his wife's $500,000 case of jewels had been stolen, he wrote cheerfully: "Think if they had stoled Gloria!" In Fort Worth he refused to commit himself on exactly where...
Overtime. In South Fallsburg, N.Y., Oilman John Lanahan, working overtime, found he was short of pipe fittings, went to the plumber's to get some, heard the plumber had gone to the movies, followed him there. He arrived in time to hear his own name called for the $200 bank-night prize, quickly claimed the cash for which he had registered the last time he went to the movies, four years...
...suggestive of Dickens' wretched Dotheboys Hall. Until the recent cold wave hit, few people in Lenox knew what was really going on inside the 44-room onetime private mansion which housed the tony ($1,400 a year) Duncan School for Boys. Then the school pipes froze and a plumber was called...
...inheritance dwindled, Schoolmaster Duncan began to slip. Struggling to stay in business, he rented the mansion in Lenox for $200 a month from one Bene Virgilio. When the plumber walked in, Duncan was out of town (for the fifth straight week) on business...