Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco, one-eyed Housepainter Charles T. Ketterman saw newspaper accounts of cornea transplantations to restore sight (see p. 20). Instead of trying to buy a cornea to repair his blind eye, he offered for sale the cornea of his one sound eye. His price: $1,500. His reason: "I have seen enough misery...
...find a hole to descend through, finally cracked up on the campus of a school for orphan girls. Results: 1) Colonel Camille Vinet, chief of the State's Aeronautics Bureau, grounded Student Earle for two weeks, 2) Citizen Earle promised to pay his State a $2,000 repair bill, 3) a prominent New Deal Governor very nearly made a sudden exit from the political scene...
...Library will put up only the few hundred dollars needed for materials. WPA will pay Edward Laning and his three assistants $23.86 a week. He will paint in oil on canvas. When the paintings are pasted up on the panels in about a year the Library will also repair the ceiling, the color of which ran when the roof leaked some 15 years...
...Welles & Houseman leased the Comedy Theatre for five years, renamed it the Mercury, then started looking for their first play. When they found Julius Caesar, they started looking for the money to produce it. Houseman combed Wall Street, got dibs & drabs, enough to keep the cast stringing along and repair the Mercury toilets. He also got promises of $12,000; then the recession came and two of the Mercury's seven angels had their wings clipped. Though Caesar was already in rehearsal, it looked as if it might never open. But Archibald MacLeish came in as liaison officer...
...endured the shattering fall from his high estate and faced the pitiless publicity, the universal stares, the ceaseless interrogation with calm, with fidelity to the duty of the moment and with the knowledge that life can hold no other purpose for him but now and always to labor to repair the wrong which he has done...