Word: tradesmen
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...squandered countless kopeks in the purchase of books and clothing by failing to follow the notices of special sales by local tradesmen, printed only in the CRIMSON...
...York's Federal Relief Administrator Hugh S. Johnson argued himself hoarse trying to convince the unionists that "security wages" would not sap private wages. He offered figures to prove that by working steadily for the Government at security wages they would make more than building tradesmen had averaged on sporadic private jobs for the past five years. He pleaded that the Government could not afford to pay any more. He begged, "Don't do it, boys!" Finally he turned to threats, ordered strikers to be back on their jobs this week or else be dropped from relief rolls...
...frail, pretty night superintendent of nurses in Kirksville College's hospital. Three hours after their wedding he left her to resume his postgraduate work at the University of Michigan's medical school. From there he wrote Kirksville friends that he was suspicious of his wife, notified Kirksville tradesmen to cancel her charge accounts, told university friends that he was afraid he was going crazy. In turn his bride informed him that an old suitor of hers, a tall, dour carpenter named Mandeville Zenge, was jealous...
...Golden Age" under the able stadtholder. Frederick Henry of Orange-Nassau. And Amsterdam was the golden city of the Dutch. Their armies were the crack fighting force of Europe. Their sea captains were preparing to smash Spain, rival Britain. All about him Rem brandt saw a young nation of tradesmen, sailors and soldiers, the litter of trophies brought home from the Orient...
...Philistia, the no plus ultra of that kind of modern literature which baffles the plain man, and rejoices in its baffling. As editor of the late lamented "Hound and Horn," Kirstein frequently published Cummings, and if he were now a publisher, he would not be among the unappreciative tradesmen who refused Cummings' present batch, perhaps because they felt that, in these days of mounting expenses, they could not afford to publish stuff sure of a small sale and equally certain to cause wonder whether a grown man can really indulge seriously in the sort of humor peculiar to Cummings...