Word: plumber
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...Denver, Columnist Randolph Churchill, who had attracted attention to himself by reporting a bathroom conversation with a plumber (TIME, Feb. 10), now bravely faced a platform duel with a carpenter. From New Jersey the carpenter wired a challenge to a "debate on the merits of the British Empire." Winston's son referred the matter to his lecture manager...
...damn." And I did not, in fact, write "damn" but "dam," thus indicating that I accepted a possibly outmoded (1877) but attractive derivation of the phrase "a tinker's dam"-dam being any barrier, and, in particular, the wall of worthless dough "raised around a place which a plumber desires to flood with a coat of solder" (see Oxford Dictionary...
...Denver hotel on a lecture tour, Columnist Randolph Churchill encountered some faulty plumbing-to his personal annoyance but patriotic satisfaction. He complained, later reported his conversation with the plumber sent to fix matters...
...Plumber: "Well, there's something wrong everywhere in the world today. . . . What's your name...
...Plumber: "H. G. Wells was the only intelligent man England ever...