Word: toils
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...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...
...device must be which automatically and without expenditure of physical energy turns away from his door every socially-inclined acquaintance who presents himself. And as a strategic aid this respected appliance will be without a peer. Suppose, for instance, that an industrious scholar, after an evening of exacting toil, is regaling a few intimates with a case of oranges. All he has to do to secure absolute privacy is to turn the sign to "Go" if that is the word selected to indicate that an intellectual quarantine has been established--and no one, save only the grossest trespasser, will venture...
...problems of the Actopels, an ordinary middle-class family, were always true to life and generally funny. Pa, bent with thirty years of toil, has just been made head bookkeeper at the plant --the heart and soul of Cranetown. Horace, the eldest son, has married and is doing well in the export department, while studying psychology by mail. Dolores, his wife and her mother-in-law's echo, is learning to cook. His brother Gordon is on the eve of realizing his ambition: a Phi Beta Kappa Key at the Mid-State University and a job in the teller...
...gods were against him, but he saved the Escampobars and fooled the English. Arlette was happy with her man-and as, for the old rover, the Brother of the .Coast, the man of dark deeds but of large heart, when the English bullets found him, he found sleep after toil, port after stormy seas...