Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young man swallows as much of Mr. Norris' misty explanations as he can. accompanies him on nights of pleasure, helps him out of less pleasurable days. When Mr. Norris turns Communist his young friend is delighted. But when he discovers at last that he has been made a tool in an extremely nefarious scheme by which Mr. Norris is trying to sell German Communist secrets to the French secret service, our hero sees through the old codger at last. For old times' sake he helps Mr. Norris make his getaway, wishes himself a good riddance...
...revolver in his hand by night and by day. . . . He shot his own child when the little one lifted a revolver that lay on the table. The playful hand might be the instrument of a woman's revenge and the Sultan knew better than anyone else that no tool is too weak to inflict a death wound. . . . This fear, this perpetual watchfulness, required that the concubines must be changed from night to night, so that his very pleasures were robbed of the ease of familiarity...
...damned as a Mellon monopoly. It has been accused of attempting to buy up the world's supply of bauxite, of cornering the supply of scrap aluminum, of conspiring to fix the world price of aluminum. Latest and most vociferous of Aluminum's accusers is Baush Machine Tool Co., independent aluminum fabricator of Springfield, Mass. Baush lost a $9,000,000 damage suit against Aluminum in a New Haven court in 1933. Last year a U. S. Court of Appeals granted a new trial which was concluded last week in Federal Court in Hartford...
...Kenosha, Wis., dissatisfied with his $35 weekly salary as purchasing agent for the Snap-On Tool Co.. Andrew B. Kotlarek, 34, eked it out for three years with purchasing agent checks to John K. Leander of the Economy Press. Universal Sales & Supply Co. and Leander Sales Co., Frank Kotten of the General Abrasive Products Co., Carl Hellen of the United Screw Products Co., all of which were really Andrew B. Kotlarek. Last week he was caught...
...their tool shed, the three contrive not only to keep body and soul comfortably together but also to exemplify the Golden Rule. The violinist gives lessons to a street cleaner whose life ambition is to learn to play "Macushla" on the fiddle. The furniture dealer rescues a despondent banker who is trying to commit suicide by plunging into a pond. The actress keeps house for them and is dejected only when the furniture dealer wears a shirt she has not had time to iron. By the time the picture ends, the violinist has a job, the street cleaner knows...