Word: prospector
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...boss rushed special trains to cover out-of-town fires, ran up enormous cable tolls. He wrote boob-catching headlines like A SUNDAY SUICIDE OF A LOVESICK LOAFER. On the premise that "there is no substitute for circulation," he spent his father's money like a drunken prospector-then made it back, as circulation multiplied...
...weariness and deprivation that come with attempting to support a wife and child at the same time. Now he finds that he's all dressed up for a canceled party . . . What is happening to him and the few like him indicates that the nation is a perverse prospector, preferring gravel to gold...
Good as Gold. In Denver, Prospector Everett B. Gardner returned a 200-lb. pewter statue he found on a gold-hunting expedition to the Keifer Plumbing Co., which had reported it stolen, collected a $50 reward...
...brained of comediennes, Josephine Hull. Playwright Spewack sets out to kid California's well-known ambition to be El Dorado when, it grows up. Actress Hull plays a hopeful landlady who, through a Spanish ancestor, lays property claims to all of Beverly Hills. Ernest Truex plays a hopeful prospector who thinks he discovers gold in Miss Hull's back yard and makes frenzied forty-niners of the other roomers...
...Meen estimated that the meteorite must have fallen at least 3,000 years ago, since there are no Indian or Eskimo legends about it. He named it Chubb Crater after the sharp-eyed prospector, and promised that a full-dress expedition would report on it within a year...