Word: tinkering
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...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...
...Saturday edition. Back in 1920, the owners of the Post had cast about to find a man who could adequately conduct the Literary Review. They went to the group of literary professors at Yale—the group which included the fluent William Lyon Phelps, the dramatic Chauncey Brewster Tinker (author of Young Boswell) the Chestertonian John M. Berdan, the quiet, sage Charlton M. Lewis, now dead, Dean Wilbur Cross, Editor of the Yale Review, and others less well known. From this group the Post secured Dr. Henry Seidel Canby...
Died. Mrs. Joseph Tinker, 41, wife of the famed former Chicago Cub shortstop, suicide (by shooting) while temporarily mentally deranged, at Orlando...