Crossword-Solution: ADJUSTER 8 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

The little old gentleman was the active spirit of the place, the adjuster of all differences, the promoter of all merry-makings, the dispenser of his friend’s bounty, and of no small charity of his own besides; the universal mediator, comforter, and friend.

One might, for example, become an Asparagus Adjuster." "A what?" "Surely you know? Asparagus Adjusters are the fellows who sell those rope-and-pulley affairs by means of which the Smart Set lower asparagus into their mouths--or rather Francis the footman does it for them, of course.

There is some talk of my learning to be an Asparagus Adjuster by mail later on." "You make me sick," said Lord Wisbeach.

But long afterward, when time, mighty adjuster of the human soul, had given to events their true proportions, that meeting with “Cottonton” loomed up in all its greatness, all its infinite appeal to the emotions, all its appeal to what is highest and worthiest in man.

Moreover, a commercial opening that is not to be despised--fifty per cent on your capital every six months." "Yes." "I offer you, then, my well-established business of adjuster of averages, good-will and office fixtures included." "But I never even heard of such a profession.