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Free Drinks & Applause. Like thousands of unskilled youngsters before and since, Arthur criss-crossed the continent getting by on such odd jobs as dishwashing and wrestling bricks from kiln to wheelbarrow to freight car. He was befriended in New York by a prostitute with a storybook heart of gold; by a sentimental Irish cop in Akron; by a priest who gave him his first religious instruction. In 1920, to continue his interrupted education, Godfrey joined the Navy, was baptized a. Roman Catholic by his chaplain at Norfolk, and-briefly-was fired by the ambition to become a priest...
...time when bayonets were superseded by other, blunter weapons. In a single air raid five years ago, a third of Solingen was reduced to rubble. "All we could salvage out of our ruins," recalled Junior Partner Wilhelm Lange of the cutlery firm of Wagner & Lange, "we put into a wheelbarrow." Part of the wheelbarrow's load was a steel filing case containing some recent orders...
Salvage. In Oneida, Wis., John J. Everhard, whose wife had loaded her belongings into a wheelbarrow and left him for the eleventh time, asked the Press-Gazette to "put an item in the paper...
...want that wheelbarrow back...
Also Ran. In Jacksonport, Wis., Oscar Scott got around to paying an election bet by pushing Mrs. H. B. Mogenson down Main Street in a wheelbarrow, was promptly given a ticket for operating a public conveyance without a license...