Word: tradesman
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Feuchtwanger historical novels are constructed with the bellying bigness of the Coliseum, are as crammed with characters as the benches of the arena at lion-feeding time. A smart literary tradesman, Feuchtwanger dresses up his vast windows on the past with a brilliant, meticulous reconstruction of Roman society in the iridescent stages of dissolution. His characters he treats with a superior irony which his devotees deeply admire, but in which others sometimes resent a rather rabbinical roguishness...
...Adolf Hitler thought when he swore he would destroy Great Britain. They not only symbolized, they constituted, the Britain which dominated world trade. They built and supported the British Fleet, protected the empire. London is where warlike Winston Churchill lives and leads the British people. But Birmingham is where tradesman-like Neville Chamberlain was born and bred to honor, multiply and defend the pound sterling...
Heir to the blood of the fathers is Meier Borsht, tradesman, the vicissitudes of whose strong-witted life follow the pattern of his dark-bearded ancestors, whose adventures and generations Robert Neumann relates with prodigal invention...
Some 500 years before Columbus discovered the West Indies, a Viking warrior* or Norse tradesman, equipped with his sword, shield and ax, took ship with his companions, set sail westward across the North Atlantic. They probably made land, avoiding icebergs, at southwestern Greenland, which had been discovered by Gunnbjorn and settled in 985-86 A.D, by Eric...
...When in Manhattan a postman handed Bonus bonds through the securities windows of sedate J. P. Morgan & Co. to a group of joyous employes, a frosty executive barked: "We can't have all this uproar here," dispatched the postman to the tradesman's entrance...