Meanings (ES + gloss)
recadero
A person hired to carry out errands or (often) menial tasks, frequently requiring travel from place to place; an errand boy or errand girl, a runner.
During the nine-month Great Lakes shipping season, the ore hogs—shovelers, "larry" car weighers, bulldozer operators, car pushers and "leg" men—unite in this miracle of supply that…
[W]ell, anyway, he sent a chap who acts as his confidential ‘leg-man’ and ‘Man Friday’.
reportero
A reporter who frequently travels to conduct research, interview witnesses, etc., and then conveys the information to a rewriteman who writes up the story.
Morris Cramm was night legman for a columnist and worked from seven in the evening to five in the morning.
[page 136] This was my abrupt introduction to the system by which most of the live news is handled for the New York evening newspapers [...] Its continued use has bred up two disti…
Phrases
No hay frases