Word: secondhands
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...Arthur Sherod, 37, an unemployed Negro laborer, piled his wife and nine children, aged two to 18, into his 1958 secondhand Buick. Though his license had been revoked, Sherod drove recklessly from their tenement flat in Jersey City to a restaurant in Newark, N.J., where his wife worked as a waitress. There, Sherod got into a drunken argument with his wife, hustled the children out to the car. Moments later, he returned wielding a knife, threatened his wife and hit her, forced her to accompany him to the car. Said Mrs. Sherod's sister, who also worked...
...trouble is that Federov, an unperceptive man, is not a very good muser. His memories have an odd qualify of seeming secondhand, as if he had anthologized them from Jerome Weidman's up-from-the-Lower-East-Side novels-he even contrives to appropriate the durable episode in which the poor Jewish boy waits tables at a party for rich, contemptuous Yalies and their glossy dates, hardens his honest heart and resolves...
Puppets. The mayor admitted that his knowledge of the double-lulu offer was secondhand, but said, "I verified the facts to the best of my ability and certainly to my satisfaction." According to Wagner, the offer was made in Room 939 at Albany's DeWitt Clinton Hotel to Manhattan Leader J. Raymond Jones, a Wagner supporter and the first Negro to head Tammany Hall. The Democratic chairman of Schenectady County, George Palmer, recalled the scene: "Jones comes in and looks around at me, McKeon and the others and says, 'Boys, I'm old enough to be your...
...canvas lay in a box of junk in an Alexandria, Va., secondhand store. But when Christine du Tant, wife of a U.S. Senate aide, unrolled it, she recognized the handsome young man it portrayed and bought it for $3. A curator of the Smithsonian Institution agreed with her: the small (10 in. by 14 in.) oil by an unknown artist is indeed of the young Abraham Lincoln, painted around 1840, and thus the earliest-known likeness of the future President. He had just turned 30 at the time and was a frontier legislator and lawyer in the midst...
...idea one day while working as an invoice clerk to support her family. To relieve the boredom of the job, she took to singing while she typed and was suddenly seized by the thought: "How much more interesting it would be to type music than invoices." She bought a secondhand typewriter from a friend and began years of figuring how to reproduce 8,000 chords with 46 keys. Biggest breakthrough was the idea for vertical typing, in which the basket of type and not the paper shifted up and down eight spaces, or an octave-an inspiration that struck...