Word: laboritis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entirely insufficient for its needs, that maintenance of the absolutely necessary daily work has required the practice of extreme economy and much effort. Largely as a result of this condition there has been an absence of modernization, and there is today an entire absence of the most ordinary labor-saving appliances and facilities for work. The same reasons have led to conditions inimical to the teaching and research study which should be the primary objects of a university museum...
...directorship meant no immediate labor for Mr. Smith. Like President-Elect Hoover, he departed for a southern vacation. His itinerary called for visits with friend Carl Espy in Savannah, Ga., potato Tycoon Frank W. Nix in St. Augustine, Fla., Circusman John Ringling in Sarasota, Fla. Most of the six weeks he will spend near Miami. Asked if he intended to call on Mr. Hoover, Mr. Smith said: "That will be news when...
Gustav, the quiet, the peaceful, shrank away. Finally he told his story to the Berlin Labor Court, sued for defamation of character...
With perfect imperturbability Pearl assured him of the worst. Jack, scion of the aristocratic family Frith-Walter, was standing for Parliament-as Labor candidate. Alan was quite as shocked as Pearl. But she wasn't leaving Jack? Certainly. Divorce? Certainly. Vanished Alan's benignity, Wordsworth's philosophy...
Evidently they had. The next morning Jack from one Genoa hotel to Pearl in another Genoa hotel despatched a note. Therein he renounced his political ambitions. Instantly Pearl from one Genoa hotel rushed to Jack in another Genoa hotel. Frith-Walter congratulated her on influencing her husband to renounce Labor, secretly regretted that his son should abandon political ideals-indecent though they were&#!51;out of mere passion for a woman. But Pearl cast herself upon Jack, swore it should never be said he had given up his political career for a woman, announced that they were immediately returning...