Word: tinkered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Booth Tarkington published a novel last year called The Plutocrat. The hero was Earl Tinker, U. S. captain of industry. Mr. Tinker's fictitious shipmates on a Mediterranean cruise included James T. Weatheright of Weatheright's Worsteds; T. H. Smith, president of the G. L. and W.; Thomas Swingey of Swingey Brothers, Inc.; Harold M. Wilson, ex-chairman of the Board of the Western Industrial Corp., etc., etc. "You almost wonder," said Earl Tinker, "how the United States can go on running with these men out here on the ocean...
Died. Jonathan Dixon Maxwell, 64, famed pioneer of the automobile industry; of pneumonia; at his home in Chesterton, Md. Starting his career as a bicycle tinker in Kokomo, Ind., Maxwell, with two others, Elmer Apperson and Elwood Haynes, built the first automobile manufactured in the U. S. (now stabled in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.). His plant at Tarrytown, N. Y., founded in 1904, became a thriving automobile centre, turned out the first cars (Maxwell-Briscoe) at the $500 mark. Maxwell's large Detroit works were used by bankers, who acquired control of the business during the pleasure...
...formal sport, this is true, but it is certain that in the beginning quoits developed out of horseshoe pitching. Followers of both games argue the question at great length. Horseshoe pitchers point out that, next to ringing church bells, throwing horseshoes was the sin which most tempted the tinker, John Bunyon, before God was made manifest to him. Now there are pitching courts in the public parks of most big cities. Quiet, sunburned old men throw horseshoes in the yards of Florida hotels. They are the ones who like the game best, but the young men are the champions...
...gives a tinker's dam whether or not a pig in Shelby, N. C., slobbers on James Ledbetter...
...goes to sleep at 6 a.m. and sleeps until 4 p.m." Eric H. Palmer Jr. had been dropped from two schools, grown sickly. Eric H. Palmer has forbidden his son to operate his transmitting set; had even crippled the set - to no avail. Eric H. Palmer Jr. continued to tinker and pine. Eric H. Palmer had to ask the Federal Radio Commission to suspend Eric H. Palmer Jr.'s operating license for 90 days...