Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opinion of the Supreme Court, delivered by Chief Justice Taft, was apparently aimed as much at the law as at the particular instance of its operation: " It has never been supposed since the adoption of the Constitution that the business of the butcher, or the baker, the tailor, the wood chopper, the mining operator, or the miner [the Kansas law applies to the production and transportation of food, fuel and clothing], was clothed with such public interest that the price of his product or his wages could be fixed by state regulation...
Lion tamers and sword swallowers ply unique and dangerous trades. The movies have discovered the human fly setting bricks at the top of a chimney and hanging signs under the clouds. Some people can never find a niche for themselves in the dull trades of "butcher, baker, and candlestick maker". It is India, however, which lays claim to the most unusual callings-at least if one may judge from a Lucknow dispatch, which describes the work of the Monkey Deporter, the Corpse Fender, and the Shahbash-Wala...
...York Globe, claims that the lack lies in the scientist rather than in the reporters and the public. The truths with which such men deal, he says, cannot be said to be discovered until they have been made as intelligible as murders or prizefights to the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker...
...Chinese have a unique social system, based on an aristocracy of learning. There are four so called 'honorable' classes, namely: Scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants. Notice that in this system there is no place for the soldier. He is classed with the barber, the actor, the butcher, and the hangman as a necessary evil. Is it not possible that the world might get the germ of an idea from this system which would materially advance international relations? It may leave China without much strength as strength is now reckoned, but I am confident that in the end she will emerge...
Labor is not a commodity; it is a service. The distinction is clear and is recognized by every housekeeper. If she buys a beefsteak the character of the butcher is a matter of economic indifference to her; all she wants to know is the character of the beefsteak; but if she hires a cook it is to her if the utmost importance to know the character of the cook--whether she is honest or a thief, industrious or idle, sober or intemperate. The employer and the employed are engaged in a co-operative industry and if that industry...