Word: toils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been thinking America, believing America, living America. . . He reverences our past. . . He knows that progress will require unrelenting toil. . . His fervent love of America has made him an out-and-out Nationalist. . . He stands for America first because America can then serve all mankind. . . Heart and soul he is an American...
Recently one of Mr. Hearst's Manhattan properties published a picture of a group of his press hands. They were seated on a staircase in their working clothes, with short sleeves, open collar? and the signs of toil upon them. In the middle of the front row, clad in overalls and looking no better and no worse than the rest was a lad singled out by a white arrow. Said the editorial 'beneath...
Short sleeves, open collars and signs of toil...
...before the House of Representatives and not only condone but actually recommend this raid upon the United States Treasury. . . . Nobody ever believed that the money of the taxpayers would be squandered in such a manner as that. . . . What will the people who actually go out and toil say? Do you know that there are people in the United States who start early in the morning and work all day long for a dollar, and a dollar and a quarter...
...affairs of state, or unconsciously as a sign of the times, the Carleton Club of London, which in the popular mind is the symbol of all that is most sacred to the British aristocracy, threw open its doors last week to some fifty odd sons of toil and bade them welcome to its Saturday luncheon. For one short hour, at least, the muezzin did not chant his "procul, o procul este, profani," from the holy doorway; and as a consequence marquises and masons hobnobbed in a state of democratic conviviality...