property man
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Partly imitating Chinese methods, Playwright Wilder has veteran Actor Frank Craven serve as property man, traffic cop, living newspaper and cracker-barrel philosopher.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Before he became a vaudeville actor, Joe Penner had been a choir boy, magazine salesman, Ford filing clerk, property man for an act called "Rex the Mind Reader."
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Here he amused the spectators by his foolishness, got a job as property man, amused more audiences by his inept efforts to control his props.
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He was elected a limited mem ber of the famed Gridiron Club to serve as stage manager and property man at its dinners.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In The Stolen Prince I was the property man, and I also played a pennywhistle, in an imitation of Japanese music, for atmosphere.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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