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...Superintendent of Schools of Cook County. I demand to enter my office," cried Noble Puffer on the eleventh floor of the County Building in Chicago one morning last week...
...went Noble Puffer to seek the aid of the sheriff. Had he not been elected last November to succeed Otto Aken? Was this not the day his term began? He had and it was, but the sheriff could not help him. A court injunction forbade that official to dislodge Otto Aken...
...fifths of Cook County, Ill. consists of the city of Chicago, which has a school superintendent of its own, life in the County Superintendent's office has its dull moments. For six years those moments have been enlivened by paunchy, grey-haired Otto Aken and dapper young Noble Puffer. Up to 1933 both were assistant superintendents. When the Superintendent died a Democratic school board appointed Mr. Aken to fill out the unexpired term. But before the next election wily Noble Puffer elbowed his superior out of Democratic graces, won the nomination. Superintendent Aken accused him of falsifying the records...
...Rugby and Balliol, settled down to spend his days as a schoolmaster at Sedbergh School, in Yorkshire. There he stayed for 17 years, leaving in friendly, dignified disagreement with the Head because he would not consider preparing boys for confirmation. A master of unbendingly upright character, a pipe-puffer, he was called "Joey Stinker" because he always smelled of tobacco. In a hard-working staff he set the pace, averaged ten hours work a day in term-time, including Sundays. Though he did not feel qualified to be a spiritual mentor, he was religious in the British sense, never missed...
...marvelous chemical contrivance converted the carbon dioxide of his breath into fuel to run a small motor which turned the rotors! (As everyone should know, carbon dioxide is anything but combustible.) 2) The pilot's name, Koycher (not Kocher), was a freak spelling of Kencher which means "puffer" or "hot air merchant...