Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fanlike ears surgically set back to his skull. Hiler has also suffered from his name. When a San Francisco guidebook spoke of him in 1939 as Hilaire Hitler, he got so mad he sued the publisher and writers for $100,000. Today he seems in fine inner and outer repair. So does Papa, of whom says Hilaire: "He is to painting what Saroyan is to writing: neither knows a thing about his craft; each does a damn good...
...become teachers and builders to the world. The responsibilities the new world had placed upon Americans could be tasks grudgingly assumed or an adventure cheerfully undertaken. In the crucial importance of that task they could say, "Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair," certain again that the wise and honest were numbered in the millions throughout the spinning earth...
...Superintendent, limit the Board of Education to policy making. To save money the Committee would retire teachers over 65, cut classroom hours in high schools to levels accepted in other cities, reorganize purchasing, improve accounting, economize on heat and power, rebind old textbooks, set up a typewriter repair shop. Out would go the "venerable but vicious system" whereby most school janitors operate on contract, some earn more than $11,000 annually by "subcontracting" and exploiting janitorial helpers...
...Vichy chief of police is at his best. Conrad Veidt plays a Gestapo chief who, unlike the usual blustering buffon that Hollywood Nazis usually are, is more sinister than laughable. Peter Lorre, an unseen corpse after the first few scenes, and Dooley Wilson, playing "As Time Goes By" to repair broken hearts, complete the list of ingredients in this North African melting...
Trains & Tractors. One of the first tasks of German engineers was to repair and restore highways and bridges, to convert railways as far as the Dnieper to the narrower European gauge. Restoration of reconquered railways is bound to be a major problem for the Russians...