Word: workingman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Releasing Corp.) is what the wife (Anna Magnani) of a poor Rome workingman calls her rather plain little pigtailed daughter (Tina Apicella). The mother has harddriving ambitions to make a movie actress out of her little "Most Beautiful," but in the end she turns down a film offer because she comes to the conclusion that her daughter should lead a simple, healthy family life instead...
...argument that free entry of goods made by "cheap" foreign labor would drag down the American workingman's standard of living, the Board answered: "Foreign labor is not cheap! Productivity as well as wages determine the value of labor. The employees of Detroit and Michigan industries, as a result of heavy investments in equipment, tools and machinery, and improved techniques of production, are competitive with other labor groups throughout the world." Free trade, said the Board, is inevitable. And it is illogical to send American products abroad with loans, grants and outright gifts to buy the goods...
...descendants of the hunting packs of Peel's time. But the owners are a different breed altogether. Few of England's pinched aristocracy can any longer afford the luxury of thoroughbred horses, pink coats and the rest of fox hunting's traditional trappings, but almost any workingman can afford a hound...
...Permanent Chip. The belligerent Stanky temperament is the result of both heredity and environment. He was born in the workingman's Kensington section of Philadelphia on Sept. 3, 1917, of German-Russian parents. His father, a leather glazer, was a frustrated semi-pro ballplayer. By the time Eddie could sit up, he was rolling a baseball on the floor. His mother recalls a pickup game on a nearby sandlot, when Eddie was still only a shaver. He was the catcher, and, overeager as usual, he crowded so close to the plate that he was knocked cold when the batter...
...back to the days of ironclad class distinctions and almost exultant snobbery, it chronicles the brief, foredoomed friendship that springs up between little Alexandra Carmichael, whose mother is a marchioness, and little Elspeth McNairn, whose widowed mother makes the marchioness' hats. Mrs. McNairn herself is courted by a workingman who drinks tea with his spoon in his cup; but though his spoon is in the wrong place, his heart is in the right...