Word: toiler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vote as equals in a new "House of Parliament" hurried, last week, representatives of the toilers and officers of the vast Dunlop Rubber Co., near Birmingham. Each proud, contented toiler-"M.P." had been elected by the secret ballots of 150 constituents. A "Constitution" stood ratified by the "House of Parliament," and to it all Dun-loppers pledged allegiance and obedience...
Born in a poor stone hut, there is now no palace that the native peasant girl of the Romagna might not enter. She has been a toiler in the fields, a gatherer of grapes, a shepherdess, a household servant, even a tavern tap-wench. Today, by a pretty pirouette of Fate, she is the consort of a man on whom Italy has bestowed the Collar of the Annunziata. He who wears that supreme badge and his wedded wife are both legally "cousins of the king...
Tillie the Toiler (Marion Davies, Matt Moore). According to Subtitle-Writer Ralph H. Spence, Tillie is the sort who wears two pairs of garters, "one to hold up her stockings and one to hold up traffic." The minx sets her cap for her wealthy employer, Pennington Fish. To land him she toys with the firm's general manager, Benjamin Franklin Whipple, a fop, declaring as she proceeds that she "will catch the rich Mr. Fish by using Whipple as the worm." In due time, however, all this diabolism is put aside in favor of wholesome matrimony with a sober...
...burns Efficiency at the stake, thus releases itself from industrial slavery. Understanding, sympathy, apparently, are needed to lessen the labors of man, not mechanical exactitude. Once the human impulses are unchecked by Efficiency, the milk of human kindness overflows everywhere, class distinctions are washed away in the flood, the toiler's working day is shortened. A Harold Bell Wright mentality wrestling with a Rousseauistic sentiment might have evolved as much...
...candidate for ordination in the Baptist ministry. It was their privilege and duty- like stringy-bearded rabbis in a yeshiveh-to probe the secret depths of this young man's immortal soul and determine whether or no he was fit to serve their God as a toiler in His vineyard. An hour passed as they plied their searching questions-on the perilous issues between Fundamentalism and Modernism; on social service work, missionary endeavor, charity...