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Contacted last night director Johann Wolfgang Schneider, world-famous blower and Bock enthusiast, said that his band would render everything it could lay its hands on. "We'll tear through Souse and Schlitz with equal fervor," he said, "and anything else we can see--which won't be much...
...elegance inclined to be lenient. Of course two handkerchiefs a day ("one to show, one to blow") was still the ironclad rule, but in a pinch, Savile Row's spokesmen agreed, a hard-pressed gentleman might be forgiven for using yesterday's shower for today's blower...
Joseph T. Walker, Jr., of Chestnut Hill, a general partner in the firm of Horn-blower and Weeks, Boston investment bankers, was elected a member of the Council and a trustee...
...first grade, led a gang of roughnecks who specialized in swiping coal from railroad yards, and got into so many fights that he seemed to be trying to cultivate two permanent black eyes. But when his father died, he got a job as an apprentice glass blower at $3.50 a week, quit school, and tried his best to fill the old man's shoes. He was twelve at the time...
...invited Hargrave to make the study. Amid the clang of steel, the rat-a-tat-tat of jackhammers and riveting machines, Earman Hargrave interviewed man after man. Some of his findings: ¶| Even the hard of hearing had no trouble with common shop talk, e.g., such words as blower, rivet, steel. But unfamiliar words spoken by strangers were unintelligible under the same conditions. ¶ "The stone-deaf learn to be careful, but those who have a deficiency that they do not know about are a serious menace to themselves and to others." One youth, injured three times by falling metal...