Word: tinkered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first open meeting of the Harvard Catholic Forum will be held on Friday, January 15, at a time to be announced later. Professor Chauncey Brewster Tinker of Yale University will be the first speaker...
Professor Tinker is in the English Department at Yale, and is an authority on Johnson and Boswell. He is the author of a book on the subject, entitled "The Young Boswell...
...Soloman Tinker's Christmas Eve", by Mr. Walter D. Edmonds Jr., beguiles us by promising two highwaymen, a bar maid, and a bar, old style. To be sure the story begins with one Judd, a coal barge owner, but nothing comes of that since we hear nothing of coal barges and little of Judd. After we get into the story we find our highwaymen. Gentleman Jo has shot the stage coach guard in the belly. It was certainly in the belly because there are five references to Gentleman Jo's custom of shooting only at the belly. Gentleman...
Chauncey Brewster Tinker (blood relative of Bishop Chauncey B. Brewster), able and popular Yale professor, interpreter of Boswell, read an address by Thomas L. Raymond, Mayor of Newark, N. J., in the latter's enforced absence. Wrote Mayor Raymond: "The task of the Catholic Church today is to create an age of faith through the medium of an order of celibate preachers...
Congress will not, said Mr. Watson, tinker with farm legislation or the tariff...