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When he was 24, Gonzalez moved to Chicago, went to night art school and worked as a daytime pants presser and railbed sweeper. He later went back to Mexico, where he taught art in public schools along with Covarrubias and Tamayo. His association with the Mexicans also had its influence on his work. Says Gonzalez: "We all came under the influence of Aztec art, Spanish baroque and Chinese and Japanese art . . . I am influenced by everybody...
...Abdallah sat until the Sultan, shaded by a parasol and fanned by a long-handled fly sweeper, drew near. Ben Abdallah revved up the motor, threw the old roadster into gear and roared at 40 m.p.h. straight at the mounted Sultan. For a startled instant, the Sultan watched the oncoming car, then began to dismount. A tough professional soldier, Calais-born Robert King, who is physical training instructor of the Sultan's guards, leaped on the running board of the Ford, grabbed ben Abdallah by the neck and wrestled him from the car. Ben Abdallah pulled a butcher knife...
...become "the death of many, but a joke in the legal profession." Caught in this slow judicial mill is a dewy orphan, Esther Summerson, and a bushelful of broadly caricatured eccentrics. Dickens loses his lightly ironic tone only when he drenches little Jo, the street sweeper, in compassion. Even here Williams is superb; he thunders the author's tearful commentary with a gusto as energetic as the Victorian's prose...
...Universities' first maid never had a chance to get home. When the Board of Overseers, in 1772, appointed the Widow Morse "to be the Sweeper of Hollis provided she be able to attend to the Duty without, drinking Spirits", the good Widow was given a room in the basement of the hall. For her end of the deal, she was promised that when she retired, she could bequeath the job to her daughter. The widow's daughter set a record of 41 years of service that has not since been equalled. Still in harness when she passed away, the Widow...
...gifts away. "Never," he explained to Bennett, "give anything without strings attached to it." But Ford sought his executives within the plant: when an engineer told him he needed a metallurgist, Ford pointed to a man sweeping the floor and said: "Make one out of that fellow." (The sweeper became a good metallurgist...