Word: plumber
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...Astor. present in a professional as well as a social capacity, and Captain Herman Gray, famed master of Gulf Stream fishing, who used to pilot President Hoover to good fishing grounds and who remarked : "Fish don't bite any faster for a President than they do for a plumber...
...Learned that Scotland Yard has assigned a special guard to John McGovern, M. P., onetime plumber, the Scottish Laborite who shouted insulting remarks at Their Majesties during the opening of Parliament...
...most Marx Brothers comedies, Duck Soup has the disadvantage of adding nothing to vary the essential technique of their efforts. It exhibits Chico & Zeppo as usual, Groucho less flatteringly than in Horsefeathers. Admirers of Harpo should be particularly pleased with his horrid actions in Duck Soup. He carries a plumber's blow torch for a cigaret lighter, conducts a wordless telephone conversation by means of horns and bells, irritates a lemonade vendor by doing sleight-of-hand with his straw hat. Good shot: Harpo, impersonating Groucho in order to steal "war plans," trying to convince Groucho that...
...bronzed, taciturn Captain Herman Gray, who used to take President Hoover out sailfishing in Florida. President Roosevelt & party got only some sea bass and porgies, no swordfish, no bluefish. one tuna. Remarked Captain Gray: "Fish don't bite any faster for a President than they do for a plumber." That night the Nourmahal cruised off down the coast to land the President back in Washington day after Labor...
...Kentucky plumber's wife last week displaced a Wisconsin foster child as heroine of the nation's sneezing news. Daisy Jost, 15, of Chippewa Falls, Wis. had ceased sneezing when Mrs. Lonnie Dickson, 48, of Princeton, Ky., commenced to sneeze. Daisy held the time record (nine days); Mrs. Dickson set the frequency record (25 times a minute). While the excitement lasted friends advised all sorts of remedies-pressing the upper lip, cold baths, blowing cigaret smoke through the nose. Doctors cured both sneezers by giving them sedatives (which allowed them to sleep and gain strength) and letting...