Word: shiftlessness
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Mark Shaw, Maine farmer, had a big family, as farmers should. Not all of them stuck as close to the soil as he would have liked. Ralph went off to be an aviator, and turned out to be a good one. George was shiftless, lazy, a loud talker, always in some kind of avoidable difficulty with his crops. Olly was frail; he kept his end up at harvest, but his mind was on debating triumphs at college, a lawyer's future. Mark's second wife would have been an invalid if they could have afforded it; pain made...
...along beautifully till the Chief began to pat her on the back and his wife to bully her. But then young Otto came along again, still yearning. They were married in style. Tycoon Hellenberg, no snob, approved of his daughter-in-law, despised his attractive son as a shiftless waster. Susanne did her best to get Otto interested in business and succeeded fairly well, but she could not keep him from cheating. Finally she left him, went back to the bakery to live. There she thought it all out, came to the conclusion that Tycoon Hellenberg was right about...
...most of the land is leased from British South Africa Co.) and spent $23,000,000 in making a mining business out of it. Mills and smelters were constructed, a village laid out. The labor is "recruited" from the natives, hence cheap and plentiful although unskilled and shiftless. Native bachelors are housed in great dormitories, families in rows of little round houses. In 1931 the company's "compound strength" was 5,800, "European payroll" 1,000. A hospital has been built and the company boasts: "Today there is no serious risk for anyone living here provided he can take...
...Billy") Sumner, professor of political and social science at Yale, delivered a famed lecture about him. Professor Sumner's character was no down-&-outer, no object of public charity but rather the ordinary citizen who, in the mass, is called upon to care for Society's weak, incompetent, and shiftless. Declared Professor Sumner...
...Minneapolis, an advertisement read: "Lazy, careless, shiftless man, 36, afraid of work, desires position...