Word: mender
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Knut Hamsun, 69, is a onetime shoemaker's apprentice, coal-heaver, schoolteacher, road-mender, farmhand, trolley conductor, fisherman. Twice he has visited the U. S. Now he lives with his family on an estate near Grimstad, Norway...
Salmon Oliver Levinson, 63. robust, mender of broken corporations, was one of the few civilians invited to the White House ceremony for the promulgation of the general Treaty for the Renunciation of War, because, as Chairman of the American Committee for the Outlawry of War, to him belonged much unofficial credit for originating the idea of making war illegal. Ceaseless agitator for peace, he had been recommended by no less a journal than the Manchester Guardian for the Nobel Peace Prize. Quite happy now, he sat back, watched the culmination of his endeavors...
While the Ohio road mender had his back turned to his wagon of hot tar. scamps dumped the tar onto the road. Stifling fumes arose. The man ran to his wagon, into the noxious gases. Within a minute he fell into convulsions. A little while later he was bleeding from the mouth. Now, three years after, he is kept in a hospital. He cannot walk. He cannot feel. He writes inane and morbid poetry. He shouts out hymns for his own amusement. His wits are loose...
...Bolton, Lancashire, to Philadelphia in 1844. The boys went to the public schools. The talent of Edward, the eldest, developed first and it was he who first gave lessons to young Thomas after the latter had tried being a wood engraver's apprentice, cabinetmaker, bronzeworker, housepainter, weaver, and mender of looms. Before long, Ruskin saw a plate by Thomas Moran Jr, in a London exhibition and singled it out as the finest contribution from...
...Story begins with the bold, brusque strokes of a poster: the German quarter of New York about 1890; Anton Zwenge, a violin-mender; his mercurial wife; his manual-laboring friends. Frau Zwenge sells sheet music against her husband's will. With the years this business prospers, dislodges him from his workbench, drives him into a corner of her store. It is the same with his old friends. The cigarmaker's sons, the baker's, install machinery. Mass production, money, is the pulse of the city. There are immigrants by the thousand to buy, to push the older immigrants...