Word: workingman
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...single volume) without making it seem ridiculous. The books have to do with the adventures of a Socialist hero named Lanny Budd, the illegitimate son of a Connecticut arms manufacturer, born in Paris and educated in Europe, wealthy, handsome, courageous, sensitive, gifted and a true friend of the workingman...
...Trades Union Congress and the Labor Party took over the paper -but couldn't make ends meet. Capitalists Beaverbrook and Rothermere knew better than the Herald's proletarian-hearted editors what the British workingman wanted to read...
Beer is synonymous with happiness to the American workingman and college student. If prices on this basic commodity continue to rise there can be no other result than a thoroughly dissatisfied population...
Besides pounding the working people with Tory ideas, the catch-as-catch-can corner speeches had another aim: to teach young Tory hopefuls how to speak the workingman's language...
...Tribune survived its first days, as a militant "workingman's weekly," by changing its garish typography for quieter dress, increasing its literary and art criticism, tripling its price and courting the "out-at-elbow middle class." The phrase came from its prize, unpredictable Critic-Columnist George Orwell...