Word: repaired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hobbies. "If I find a strap is broken, I like to get out the tools that are used by shoemakers and harness makers, make a waxed end, and repair it. I like to do a little blacksmithing around what is left of our old shop [at Plymouth, Vt.], try my hand again with the carpenter's tools, go out and repair the fence where it is breaking down, and mend the latch on the kitchen door. Most people in this country do these things themselves and do not hire them done...
...game with Geneva. No increase in the seating capacity of the stands, which now accommodate 14,000 people, has been made. The foreman in charge of the work stated yesterday that 25,000 feet of lumber and 40 kegs of spikes and nails had been used in the repair work. He estimated that the cost of the erection and repairing of the stands to be about $20,000. At the end of the football season, all except 5,000 of the temporary seats are torn down and stored for the succeeding year...
...Rosenthal was, in fact, greatly respected by his friends in Manhattan and Brooklyn. He was a member of the Olympic Lodge, Kismet Temple, Ancient Order of the Mystic Shrine of Brooklyn, and owned several tenements which he kept in exemplary repair...
...down over the cadaverous face that only the high hooked nose of Emanuel Silberstein showed out from beneath. Moving up behind his old tutor, the youth raised a squat hammer (a cobbler's) and beat upon the bowed white skull. James Calisch was unconscious, his cranium crushed beyond repair, before other patrons could seize Student Silberstein...
...less silent colleagues continued their investigation of campaign expenses. At one point, Senator Reed was at pains to remind people that this dredging, though begun among slushy millions in Pennsylvania, would be extended to "every State in the union." The next state will be Illinois. The committee will repair to Chicago this month to plumb charges made last week by busy-buzzing Senator Thaddeus Caraway that three or more millions were spent on candidates...