Word: chap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...important property in so far as its income producing ability is concerned. The attitude of well-to-do people differs from that of the unskilled worker only in so far that the people better off are able to stand a few weeks or months of unemployment while the other chap may be forced to the verge of charity by only a few days of joblessness. The unskilled laborer often cannot earn enough to save; the skilled laborer can. Ever since I faced the situation of having to get a position as an unskilled worker before the twenty-five dollars...
Dave Roth contributes a versatile offering of piano playing, singing and dancing. Flo Lewis presents a line of new and catchy songs, and Bob Hall is well received as the "Extemporaneous Chap." Some statue posing by Margaret Stewart and William Downing and the Lazier-Worth Co. in "An Evening at Home" complete the bill...
...respond to it in some way their hold on the more intelligent men in America and on the intellectual life of the country is sure to weaken. Their already feeble resistance to technical education will become a rout. The trouble with the lecture system is that it keeps a chap at 21 or 22 working on his old prep school subjects of Literature, Mathematics, History and Natural Science in the prep school way. Daily assignments are designed to occupy all of his time and it is presumed that he is not capable of independent interests in them which are worth...