Word: worke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Subway contractors in the U. S. have labor troubles, landslides and politics to contend with. Seldom if ever is their work stopped by any Ministry of Fine Arts...
Last week the French Ministry of Fine Arts ordered all construction stopped on the Boulevard St. Michel extension of the Paris Metro. Engineers and workmen were given a fortnight holiday. Excavating will continue during the fortnight, but instead of steam shovels and pneumatic drills, trained archeologists will be at work scraping the earth methodically away with garden trowels, ice picks, soup spoons. Fortnight ago the rattling drills of the subway contractors penetrated the long lost torture chambers of the Petit Châtelet. Last week the archeologists, scraping away with their soup spoons, declared that...
...also marks the founding of the League of Red Cross Societies by the late great Henry Pomeroy Davison. Red Cross work is the outgrowth of Florence Nightingale's nursing British soldiers during England's Crimean War against Russia and of the Swiss philanthropist Henri Dunant's description of suffering in the battle of Solferino (1859). Formal organization of war nursing began at Geneva in 1864. During the World War, such nursing was well organized. Perhaps most efficient was the American Red Cross which Davison headed. In May, 1919, he persuaded England, France, Italy and Japan to join...
...this time father was a rattled wreck; He didn't drink, he had anxiety, My mother, everything; he couldn't solve The money matter. My brother had flown off To work his way through School. And there I was In rooms that fronted on a business street Over a candy shop, there in that old, Lonely and desolate Virginia town...
...addition to Optional Consumption, the committee (seemingly bent on creating phrases) also discussed Leisure Consumption-the fact that shorter hours of employment produce longer hours of leisure and that less work and more play make Jack a good spender. The busy radio and cinema industries were cited as examples of Optional Consumers engaged in Leisure Consumption...