Word: plumber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...post without a struggle. Each wheeled and stood with his back to the post while the Maquis tied his hands securely at kidney level. The youngest prisoner was 19, the oldest 26. One had been a mechanic in other days. Another had been a farmer. One had been a plumber whose job was to keep the toilets flushing at Milice headquarters. Two had been captured in a truck with a Milice captain who was killed. One was caught in the mairie, one at home in bed with his wife...
...crew are Electricians Myra Iorg and Thelma Watson, who once worked in defense plants; Carpenter Ruth Wallick, who has three brothers in the Army and says that she used to do all the carpentry around home; Plumber Marguerete Julien; Plumber Laura Derrickson, who once attended the Fort Wayne Bible Institute, now zealously preaches the doctrine of not throwing anything in the "heads"-because if one gets stopped up "we'll have to take out that whole doggone bulkhead...
Eviction. In Belgrade, Neb., Mrs. Adelia Ward, baffled by a balky drain pipe, finally called a plumber, who went to work, extracted from the pipe 60 hibernating snakes...
Newcomer. Observers rated Candidate Murphy as little more than a common Garden State variety of politician. A onetime plumber, he was a $28-a-week union official when elected to Newark's City Commission in 1937. As Newark's Mayor (since 1941), he has worked hard...
Bearded British Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, plumber for polygamy, last week recommended four additional postwar freedoms: free gambling, freer drinking, cafe terraces and Sunday shows. To attract tourists to the Isles, he suggested that Britons "stop treating foreigners as monsters of immorality and freaks of eccentricity. . . . Also we should learn to cook...