Word: joblessness
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Bite the Dusk. Daniel Laverock is a stout-bodied chap in his 20s, of good family and a surpassing ugliness. When he finds himself jobless in the Depression '30s, he gets a job as manager of the Pantheon, a wretched Fowlers End movie-vaudeville house owned by Sam Yudenow. It is Sam who dominates the book, a grasping, greedy, devious monster whose hilariously disarranged speech makes the best lines attributed to Sam Goldwyn read like decorous bits from Fowler's Modern English Usage. He is a devoted movie fan, particularly of westerns: "Bing, bash, bosh-another foreskin bites...
...became mayor of Florence six years ago, bustling Giorgio La Pira summoned a city official and announced: "Your only preoccupation will be to employ for the city as many jobless as possible." When the official uneasily remarked that city funds were already overdrawn, La Pira blithely replied: "This town is dedicated to God. He never worried about money and neither shall...
...Labor Department reported that employment in February rose by 612,000 workers to a new monthly record of 63.1 million, largely wiping out the extra-heavy January decline. Unemployment also took a better turn, dropped by 123,000 to a total of 3,121,000 jobless. U.S. factory hands earned an average $82.41 a week, a new record for the month. And with hourly earnings of $2.05, the workingman had the highest wage level of all time...
...Rich Get Richer. In Jerusalem, dejected after his wife presented him with twin girls. Raymond Zetoun, already a jobless father of three, grumpily decided to name them "No Alternative" and "What Can I Do?", finally was persuaded to substitute "Good Morning" and "Good Night...
...Away from It, a revival of Frank Capra's 1934 Oscar-winning It Happened One Night, has withstood the ravages of time better than most. In its first release, the Samuel Hopkins Adams story of a runaway heiress (Claudette Colbert) and a jobless reporter (Clark Gable) who follows her movements with somewhat more than professional attention, was a sensation-and not only at the box office. It set a style of furiously farcical social satire that, during the rest of the decade, relieved the general depression with some of the wackiest, wittiest comedies (Nothing Sacred, Mr. Deeds Goes...