garageman
Americannoun
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garagemen
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For the second time within a month, Ann Cooper Hewitt Gay, inventor's heiress who two years ago sued her mother for tricking her into a sterilization operation, was separated from her garageman husband, Ronald Gay.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Successor to his $150-a-night job: Joseph Francel, 42, American Legionnaire, garageman and electrician, who has already officiated once, when Robert Elliott was confined to his bed last summer.
From Time Magazine Archive
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'?"
From Time Magazine Archive
He was wondering whether, after the summer's maturity of being a garageman, Ted would "get busy" in the university.
From Babbitt by Lewis, Sinclair
Farmers, garagemen, merchants, traders piled in with their own vehicles.
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Blacksmiths who had become garagemen were becoming blacksmiths again.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the next 60 days he was victimized by garagemen who were as efficient at stripping him of money as they were inefficient at fixing his car.
From Time Magazine Archive
Valuable to students, motorists, mechanics, repairmen, garagemen, automobile salesmen, chauffeurs, motor-boat owners, motor-truck and tractor drivers, aviators, motor-cyclists, and all others who have to do with gasoline power plants.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Pag?, Victor Wilfred
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