Word: postman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Someone tapped his shoulder. "May I?" asked a blank-faced Dinner Jacket: Three more years, he thought as he crossed the polished floor to the liner's bar, he would be of age, and no more damned guardians. * * * John was cutting cordwood when the postman drove up and rattled at the tin mailbox by the road. "H'lo John" the postman sang out. How d' ye make out?" "Dandy Mr. Clinton. They gave me a scholarship and the state Harvard Club promised to fix things if I get stuck. I got a job for my meals, and I guess...
...mother-in-law were reading the _______and _________ respectively. Of course many arguments ensued, in which we each tried to prove the newsworthiness of our choice. As the weeks passed I found it increasingly difficult to find TIME when I had a few moments to spare unless I met the postman at the door and hid the magazine for future reference. Finally when my husband and mother-in-law were having their own race as to who was to get TIME first, I ... put my TIME-reading day over to the following Monday so they would have an even break...
...butcher who handled a bull-fiddle as familiarly as if it were one of the big carcasses hanging in his refrigerator, a Sears, Roebuck accountant who plays the viola, a postman who is also a flutist, and 100 other double-lived Chicago businessmen hurried from their workaday jobs early one night last week, dressed themselves in freshly-pressed business suits and set out for Orchestra Hall to demonstrate how well a band of earnest, carefully-rehearsed amateurs could play...
...among us. . . from out of a land in which he is God: he comes from a high ordaining of love and death and of all human affairs in this mote familiar land. . . ." For Cabell the land of Pictesme is his spirit's home. Neither the daily visits of his postman. Fearing fan mail from the outside world, nor the American flag that flaps before his summer writing-porch, in "that Viriginia summer resort which nowadays . . . is best known to my inattentiveness," can wean him from...
...beneficiary is the Hershey Industrial School, where 350 boys and young men learn useful trades. The school has 500.000 of the company's 706,520 common shares held in trust for it. On the directorate which voted the raise were Cousin Ezra F. Hershey and John E. Snyder, onetime postman. When in 1886 Founder Hershey began making caramels in a little alley, Postman Snyder at first had difficulty in finding him. Later, however, he often dropped in to nibble and advise, becoming Mr. Hershey's vice president...