Word: factotum
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George almost killed George Saturday, but yesterday he was up and walking around at his regular job as factotum of Robinson Hall...
...late George Gershwin's 16-min. American In Paris will be streamlined to 4½ min. Baritone John Charles Thomas, first of 13 soloists on Kostelanetz' new series, will sing Home on the Range, a song from Apple Blossoms, Largo al Factotum from The Barber of Seville, as they were written. But next week Kostelanetz will excise large chunks from the Naila Waltz of Delibes, the Caprice Espagnol of Rimsky-Korsakov, and Pianist José Iturbi will whip through the finale of a Mozart sonata in 3 min. He will also play the piano part of Gershwin...
...Main significance of Senator Minton's sudden McNutt-for-President boom last week was to suggest not only that Commissioner McNutt was still running his machine but that the machine was in good repair. Last month Commissioner McNutt's "administrative assistant" and general factotum, 33-year-old Wayne Coy, flew from Manila to the U. S. A slim, energetic young man, whose eyebrow mustache and rimmed spectacles made him look a good deal like Comedian Charlie Chase, Wayne Coy went first to Indianapolis to testify against two politicians who last spring attacked and beat him in a corridor...
...pleasant young women who are graduate nurses and serve as hostesses on U. S. airlines are a fixed institution of the air and are considered a profitable investment by their employers. U. S. railroads, long addicted to the Negro porter as a factotum, have seen the signs of the times...
...Burton was president of his high-school class and editor of the student magazine. From his experience as newspaper carrier he evolved a more efficient scheme for handling deliveries, soon became a factotum in the newspaper office. As assistant in the public library, to him for advice came worried clubwomen with literary papers to write; soon he had a strictly private little business of ghostwriting. By the time he had graduated from high-school no one was surprised that hardworking, bright young Burton Rascoe had decided to go on to the University of Chicago...