Word: toiled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swum: a crusader's sword. Like himself his publications were simple, eminently respectable, ultra conservative, 100% American. It was Publisher Curtis' idea that the Satevepost, which he bought in 1897 for $1,000 when it had a circulation of 2,000, should preach the romance of honest toil. †Ladies' Home Journal, as nearly everyone knows, was originated and long edited by the publisher's first wife, Louisa Knapp Curtis. She had scoffed at the poor quality of the women's column in Tribune & Farmer, offered to write a better one herself. Her column grew...
Here may we sit and view their toil That travail in the deep...
...partners stationed in Manhattan (five manage Drexel & Co. in Philadelphia) work together behind a long row of rolltop mahogany desks on the first floor of No. 23 Wall St., shut off by a glass partition from the banking floor and an area where clerks toil incessantly with calculating machines. By elevator they can go to the floor above where a long corridor decorated with large photographs of partners gives access to private offices where they can go to dictate to secretaries. (The Elder Morgan would tolerate no female stenographers but that day is long past.) Every morning the partners, including...
...merits which it extolls; it is simple, homely, realistic. It is a worker's drama laid in a background of steel struts, huge cranes, belching steam-engines, stinking box-cars, wood, sand, and concrete. Rough, eager workers with rugged, seamed faces, and stick-like limbs garbed in coarse cloth toil, sweat, wonder, learn, and finally succeed. The most industrious brigade is awarded a banner, the laurel wreath of the worker's state. There is no pomp or glitter, little enough of comfort, many primitive growls and grunts, but no oratory: the whole tone is rough, sodden, gray, inarticulate. The plot...
...long toil of the brave...