Word: toiler
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...toiler in the mortuary complained that he got less than $45 a week for doing "cosmetics and hairdressing" and had to work day & night. An embalmer at Forest Lawn (where four union members were fired) cried that he not only had to "prepare remains" but wash windows, sweep floors and roll up gauze and excelsior pads for the "cases'" elbows...
Bravo on your discerning write-up of Robert Frost, the world's most gifted toiler in his particular vineyard...
Lorenzo Parry was a toiler, all right, but not in the vineyard: he was a safecracker with 25 years of experience (counting periods of enforced inactivity...
Only one objection arose as she drained the jug during the afternoon. A neighboring toiler protested that the gritty crunch of stirred sugar distracted her to the point where she could hardly remember the life span of King Aethulwulf of Britain...
...three years, he drew front-page political cartoons for the Chicago Inter-Ocean - a fellow toiler with another famed U.S. humorist, Ring Lardner. And for two years more, at a phenomenal $70 a week, he drew for the Cincinnati Post...