Word: toils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time he devotes to his daily bread, by such soulful manufacturers as Mr. Ford. The Saturday half-holidays, the five-day week, the six-hour day, all have their ever-increasing following, and it sad time it would be for the world if those hours of freedom from toil were spent in dissipation or even innocent idleness...
Under a bright cover of appropriately aquatic design, the pages of the current "Briny Deep" number of the Lampoon offer a half-hour's entertainment to those seeking relaxation after toil during these last days of preparation for the approaching examinations. But Lampy's readers will not be allowed wholly to forget the Reading Period; for the Jester's editorial wit once again plays around this academic innovation, and under an elaborate figure suggests the Sophoclean maxim that it is unwise to call any man happy until he has safely passed his final goal. Those who have followed Lampy...
...band of his sombrero. Troops of screaming monkeys swing past, stopping occasionally to grimace at us. From the depths of the forest, mountain lions roar. Huge macaws wing across the sky, crying hoarsely and flashing crimson. We ford and re-ford the north-flowing tributary, for endless hours we toil across the Yali range, and finally drop down near Jinotega in another night of driving rain over a road where the horses roll pitifully, up to their bellies in mud. ... I was finally brought to ... General Sandino's headquarters ... at San Rafael del Norte ... in the Department of Jinotega...
Just before Disraeli left the Prime Ministry in 1880 he struck definitely the tone of their correspondence thus: "Lord Beaconsfield, no longer in the sunset but in the twilight of existence, must encounter a life of anxiety and toil; but this, too, has its romance, when he remembers that he labors for the most gracious of beings...
Achilla Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI, is surely one of the world's most busy men. Last week especially did he toil in the hushed and shadowy gardens of the Vatican in Rome. A large part of his labor was, to be sure, of a somewhat contemplative variety; the eyes of his attention, diverted always to the odd corners of the world, rested upon the U. S., where the affairs of the Roman Church flourished exceedingly...