Word: tinkering
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John Bunyan, whose great work is as famed as Richard Hooker's is obscure. The zealous tinker, who won his youthful struggle against the sins of swearing, Sunday afternoon games and dancing, spent twelve years in the filth and squalor of Bedford jail for refusing to stop his "unlicensed preaching." But it was probably during a second, briefer imprisonment, in 1675, that he "fell suddenly into an allegory" and produced his well-known work, Pilgrim's Progress...
Once, when someone asked whether his religion ever interfered with his banking, Sanders exploded: "Christianity isn't worth a tinker's toot if it won't work! The place to find out if Christianity works is at your desk. I apply it to life as I live...
Some of the slum families were consumptive, some "harmless" (a euphemism for touched in the head) and some were looked down upon for reasons of caste: tinkers, or beggars, or those who live on charity, in the tenements (once fine 18th Century houses) of Napper Tandy Street. Twisty Nellie, a professional beggar who always promised a prayer to her benefactors, explained with spirit: "Sure how could I say a prayer for each one of them separate! I'd be at it all the day. I says a little prayer for the whole huroosh." Twisty Nellie's story, like...
...Miss Tinker, editor of the year old magazine, said that polls requesting the innermost desires of the potential Harvard-Radcliffe reading audience would be distributed in all registration lines for the next five days. Results of the poll will ascertain just how far skirts, necklines, and changes in magazines will...
...look" as taken over completely as Irene C. Tinker, Radcliffe '49, promised a "much more attractive magazine" which will explore riches as yet unplumbed in undergraduate publications. The graphic arts will be given a larger play in the revamped make-up and it is probable that a two page photographic spread will be utilized...