Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Future. Normally a Republican nomination in Pennsylvania is as good as an election. This time there is, however, the possibility that Pinchot will bolt the Republican ticket either to run as an independent or to join forces with the Democrats who nominated William B. Wilson (Secretary of Labor under the President of the same surname). In any event it will take an heroic effort if a Republican nominee is to be beaten in Pennsylvania...
...abundant life, Dr. Eliot comforts himself, and all of us, with a paradox. He finds, and says, that the "essence of the fun of life" is "contest without conflict." Paradox or no paradox, the philosophy is sound. Incidentally, Dr. Eliot applies the idea to the relations between capital and labor. In this field, warfare is vastly--it might be totally--unprofitable. No doubt so long as some men work for wages that other men pay, there will be a contest of interests. But the conflict of men, the clash of wills, we shall not always have in this practical land...
Since Coach Mitchell was forced to use three pitchers against the Orange and Black he will probably and send Booth to the mound, though it is just possible that one of those who served on Saturday will again do duty. Puffer, who saw little more than an inning of labor on Saturday may start in Booth's stead...
...Story* jolts off down the clay ruts of Lane County, Tennessee - stretches of crowded, stumbling action; bursts of mulish power. Abner Teeftallow, a brawny illiterate of 18, leaves the poor-farm where his mother died insane, to labor as a teamster on a traction project of Lanesburg's genius and potentate, Railroad Jones. From his fellow teamsters he learns the technique of hillbilly manhood- gulping moonshine, shooting craps Saturday nights in a wood, toting an automatic pistol for protection on "rambling" (courting) nights and for display at prayer-meetings. He reveres the four local gods- public opinion, money...
...people whose surroundings seem to have become a spiritual wasteland, stunting and evaporating in them all but their physical vigor, malicious wit and crudest humanities. Scores of characters crowd the stage, each closely observed in real life's unmistakable habiliments, from the principals clear down to Schallburger, the labor organizer, and Sim Pratt, slick soda-jerker. There are smashing scenes, but toward the end the cast gets completely out of hand...