Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fowler, two men of last year's Freshman, surprised everybody including Bolles by installing himself, temporarily at least, on the number four slide. Although he washes out slightly and seems to be fascinated by the sight of his blade shoving back mounds of water, he is a hard worker and should be able to hold off stiff competition...
Captain Dudley Talbot's rowing at three cannot be praised too highly. The only other Senior in the boat besides Bill Rowe, Captain Talbot is the hardest and most consistent worker. A veteran like Talbot, John Richards fills the two position with a powerful oar, which makes up for any lack of form...
Full of interesting detail, the biography notes that all the Goodman kids drank coffee as soon as they were weaned. Milk cost too much for a Chicago garment-worker's family. Goodman recalls that he first met the late great Trumpeter Beiderbecke on Aug. 8, 1923, because that was the day the youngest Goodman, Jerome, was born. The first band under Goodman's direction was a pickup combination that he took to Cannon Club for a 1929 Princeton house party. His first national publicity, on the occasion of his 1935 Sunday concert, while playing in Chicago, is attributed...
...Maharanee's family received news of the marriage with mixed emotions. Her father, a 64-year-old retired railroad switchman who gets along on a $30-a-month pension, was proud of the way Peggy was getting ahead in the world. But her brother Edward, a WPA worker, could not see it that way. "It's his race," he snapped. "I don't like...
...tipped the pretty red-headed waitress 50?. She goggled archly. "Nobody's thrown that much money at me for two days." "Sweetheart," said the customer, "I'd like to throw more than that at you." Ten minutes later, heading for another joint on Route 40, this fast worker quoted the waitress's price to his chauffeur. "I'm supposed to come back for her at two-thirty," he said...