Word: tinkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Irone C. Tinker, Radcliffe '49, editor of the year-old magazine, said that polls probing 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 polt will guide future contents of the publication, she said...
...Dusen opened slow moved up at the far turn, and finished driving to win going away. Ross, away fast showed good speed and led all the way running easily at the three-quarter until fonied from behind. Tinker first visibly in the stretch and never even not out of the each. Feiris and showed nothing...
...Legend. To Henry Ford, the smell of gasoline had been like perfume. He was born a tinker, not a farmer, which was what his farmer father had wanted him to be. He was also born stubborn, so he quit the farm and ended up tinkering with a gasoline contraption in a red brick shed back of his house in Detroit. One day in 1896 he took an ax to the wall of the shed (the door was too small) and drove the contraption out into the world. That was the start. He believed in gasoline and the engine. Seven years...
...Wickman bought a small line operating out of Superior, Wis., owned by a young man named Orville Swan Caesar. The line was unimportant, but Caesar, a onetime mechanic's helper who liked to tinker, was not. Within a year he and Wickman were running Greyhound together and had laid the foundations of the present Greyhound Corporation. They kept on buying up other lines out of profits, kept their former owners to run them. When their cash dwindled, a Minneapolis banker, Glenn Wood Traer, joined forces with them. He persuaded railroads to hedge their own futures by investing...