Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...claimed by the strikers that a worker must be in the factory from 7 until 5 o'clock whether there be work...
...finish-line on Exeter Street-a good way is to finish eighth the year before. Jimmy Henigan was eighth in 1930, winner the next year; Paul De Bruyn was eighth in 1931, winner a year ago. In eighth place last year was a short, prudent Pawtucket, R. I. mill worker named Leslie Samuel Pawson who trains for marathons not by drinking beer like many of his confreres but by total abstinence from alcohol and tobacco, long runs around Pawtucket when he gets through work. Last week Leslie Pawson started off smoothly with a group bunched in third place...
...Stalin regime. Some 100% Bolshevists excuse him for the position he holds. As Foreign Commissar it is his duty to move among tainted bourgeois, wear bourgeois clothes. It is not unnatural that he should occasionally think bourgeois thoughts. With his wife and two children and one "house worker" he occupies a four-room apartment over a garage behind the former palace of a Moscow tycoon. Official dinners are held in state rooms at the Foreign Office where Host Litvinov dispenses champagne and caviar on solid silver plates-belonging to the government...
...combined persuasiveness of a social worker and the Greek Catholic priest, gradually began to tell with Vasko. Said he: "If the court says I must take out the child's eye, then all right. But my wife, she still is not willing." But one morning early, a milkman saw the Vaskos, with their three children, bundles and one suitcase, steal from their house, climb into a dilapidated automobile, flee town...
...squirearchy of Long Island, no gentleman resides more snugly than Col. Henry Stanley Todd of "The Priory," Dix Hills, Huntington. Onetime president of Universal Turbine Co., a Red Cross and Intelligence Division worker during the War, he is tall, grey-mustached and goateed, a benignant neighbor to Huntington villagers. In the evenings he is fond of calling in his Negro servants for some music-they on their guitars, Col. Todd on his drums. And Col. Todd is by no means an obscure country gentleman. The Pope knows of him. So does the Bishop of Liverpool, the King of the Belgians...