Word: foremans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...narratives around the lives and opinions of several colorful figures, here a benevolent old widower, there a noisy and witch-rapping harridan, Mrs. Peterkin has skillfully given a convincing portrayal of the community as a whole. The best of the individual portraits is that of the old negro foreman, whose duty it is to see that all runs smoothly on the plantation. Like Conrad's Nostromo among the cargadores, he stands erect and aloof from his fellows. His contempt for the "pobuckras," as the negroes term white people of mean extraction, is equalled only by the amused disdain in which...
Emil A. Marklewitz who teaches German ("Priceless literary gems were written in German") earns his living as a high-school physics instructor. Joseph R. Blanco, a Reo foreman, teaches Spanish. A high-school teacher and a radio service man explain the mysteries of Radio ("Understand this marvel of the Age"). Alpha Pearl, who teaches the school's most popular course. Stenography ("A profession to professionals-a great convenience to others") at the Y. M. C. A. building, practices her vocation by day at the Kirby Mercantile Agency. There are courses in Dramatic Interpretation at the Reo Club House...
...jury. "I overlooked one thing. If you are not satisfied beyond all reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty as charged, then he ought to be acquitted." Twenty-six hours later came a resounding thump on the brown wooden jury room door. The bailiff let the jurors out. The foreman unfisted a moist crumpled note, handed it to the clerk. A thin smile faded from Patterson's lips as the clerk read his third death sentence...
...time; at a crucial moment the cement runs out: then some blundering fool cuts off the water to attach a metre; it rains; a storm comes, knocking out the telephone wires, imperiling vital communications. One of the briggaders loses a hand between two shunting flatcars. The foreman, incoherent with rage, implores his superior engineer, who he thinks is interfering, to go to hell, to get off the lot. By the time the last few loads are mixed, even anti-Bolshevik readers will be sitting on the edge of their chairs, breathing hard through their noses. When the whistle blows...
...bloc of votes which have meant victory in the past are now split, how closely no one knows. The Innes-Nichols-Goulston group is an excellent match for the Curley-Coakley-Foley combine. Parkman has the record of being a political giant-killer and his experience as a dock foreman combined with political astuteness make him a vote-getter among the working classes. Mansfield points justifiably with pride to his 90-odd thousand votes against Curley last election. Last minute dopesters say Foley's loss of the city employee vote to Nichols has killed his chances. Samuel Seabury's nephew...