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...Pascal from turning out a polished and distinguished product is a transcendent Oscar in the onetime cavalryman's lap. The squat, fervent, irascible Transylvanian, determined to use his hard-won franchise on the world's richest mine of entertainment material, not only had to play cook & bottle washer but also had the redoubtable Shavian personality to contend with...
...pantry worker from the Freshman Union; a cook, salad man, and a busboy from Winthrop; an busboy and a truckman from Leverett; one glass-woman from Lowell; a busboy, a kitchen man, potwasher, dish man and spare man from the Main Kitchen on Boylston Street; a pot washer from the Medical School; and a utility man from the Business School...
...King had said that life was made up of loving and making money, but it was a good deal more than that. Life was made up of letting the dog out, of hitting your thumb with the hammer when you were driving nails, of getting someone to fix the washer in the laundry faucet, of Christmas and friends to dinner. . . . It always seemed that, when I finished with one particular problem, there would be time to read or time to think-but there was always something else. . . . From the depths of memory a troubled tale emerges...
...Buffalo Negro car washer sidled a stranger, asked him point-blank if he wanted $231. Said the Negro: "I'm on the legit, boss. I ain't looking for no racket." Nevertheless he was lured to the downtown office of the National Depository of America. The U. S., explained the Depository, has $30,000,000,000 in idle, i.e. "decirculated," currency. It also has 130,000,000 people. This works out to $231 for each of them. To get yours, all you have to do is pay $1 a month to the National Depository of America. For this...
...window washer of a new-style safety belt is the Temporary National Economic (monopoly) Committee of advancing technology. Its chairman, Wyoming's Senator Joe O'Mahoney, is so fnghtened of better machinery that he has introduced a bill in Congress providing tax penalties for any employer who makes a "more than average" use of machinery...