garageman
Americannoun
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garagemen
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The garageman refused to make repairs without a cash payment, seemed dubious when Amy explained that her brother was president of Harvard.
From Time Magazine Archive
Toward noon Deputy Blunk called by long distance to say that the jailbreakers had released him and the garageman near Peotone, Ill., about 25 miles away, giving them $4 for carfare and a cigaret each.
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A portable traffic light that can be set up in the center of the street and operated from the sidewalk has been developed by J. R. Vissing, a Jeffersonville, Ind. garageman.
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When Malcolm Cowley attributes the phrase "a lost generation" to Gertrude Stein's disgruntled auto mechanic, he is asked, "Is it possible the garageman was referring to 'a lost generator'?"
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While this relation of bailor and bailee exists, the owner is not ordinarily responsible for the negligence of the garageman or his servants in the care or operation of the automobile.
From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Albert Sidney Bolles
Blacksmiths who had become garagemen were becoming blacksmiths again.
From Time Magazine Archive
In plain-spoken letters to the White House the cleaners and garagemen all gave the same reason: The benefits of a code had been taken away and only the burdens remained.
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Rich But Honest tells how two poor working girls jilt their garagemen steadies for life on the stage.
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Some of the claimants connive with their doctors, lawyers and garagemen to pad their bills.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Mornin', Mr. Babbitt!" said Moon, and Babbitt felt himself a person of importance, one whose name even busy garagemen remembered—not one of these cheap-sports flying around in flivvers.
From Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
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