Word: tinkered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...servants in the 17th-Century inn at Speen. Hard by Chequers, country home of Britain's Prime Ministers, the Plow became a stopping place for tourists who came to see the former hostess of No. 10 handing out half pints in the pub. She employed Ridgley, dubbed "Tinker" by his cronies, as her gardener, started village tongues to wagging when she drove about the countryside with him last summer. Drummer in the village band, Tinker gained further favor because he was Speen's ace darts player. "Miss Ishbel" has her own team of dart throwers which she pits...
...Chauncey B. Tinker, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, will deliver a lecture entitled "Contentment: John Constable" at 8 o'clock tonight in New Lecture Hall...
This lecture is the last in a series given by Dr. Tinker on the topic of "Literary Tendencies in English Painting...
Engaged, Ishbel Allan MacDonald. 55, onetime (1924, 1929-35) hostess at No. 10 Downing Street (for her widowed father, the late Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald). now keeper of the Plow Inn, Speen, Bucks.; to Norman ("Tinker") Ridgley, 35, house painter, electrician's helper, ditchdigger, gardener, drummer in Speen's band, regular customer at the Plow, topflight darts player; in Leeds, England...
Chauncey B. Tinker, Sterling Professor of English Literature at Yale and well-known author, resumed last night the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures in a lecture entitled "Blake: The Gates of Paradise." His general subject is Literary Tenedencies in English Painting from...