Word: toiling
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...been a goddess for 48 of her 68 years on earth, few of her multitudinous devotees would have known that their divinity was dead if explanations had not been made in her obituaries. Few indeed of the millions and millions of worshipers who carried her effigy with them-at toil and at play, in sickness and in health-as their most valued icon, suspected that she had lived a mortal existence...
...complicated traps of the island politicians. His predecessor's liberal application of the Jones Act (which promised eventual independence) had bred local corruption so crude it was almost laughable and, according to some, a state approaching governmental chaos. Characteristically, the General said nothing, but began, by long hours of toil, to change all that. A visitor noting in his library stacks of weighty tomes concerning the Islands asked when he intended to read them. "Oh, I already have," replied the General...
...Carnegie Institution awarded him $10,000 a year for ten years to carry on his work; 14 years since the Government turned over to him 7,680 acres of land. During his last illness (heart weakness induced by nervous strain and aggravated by gastrointestinal difficulties) he bade his gardeners toil on, and doubtless they will continue to do so, under the direction of the chartered Luther Burbank Society. Ten years ago he married his young secretary, Elizabeth J. Waters of Hastings, Mich. There were no children. To their home have come notables from every walk of life and Burbank...
Despite the announcement of "National Beer Week" at Berlin, it appears that a state of overproduction exists in the German alcoholic beverage industry. The 600,000 workers who toil to produce and distribute German beer, and the countless peasants who tend German vines, were informed last week through numerous propaganda agencies that only the most determined imbibing can remedy the situation...
...dissipate in some degree the "moral and social fog" occasioned by loose thinking, the "Forum" has announced a definition contest to clarify such toil-worn terms of elastic meaning as "Americanism", "progress", "tolerance", and "propaganda". Although it would be impossible to cage all the connotations of a word or to halt its manipulation by argumentative proponents of social doctrine. It may still be possible to establish the mainspring of its sense and to relate its varied uses there...