Word: workman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lady's Virtue. Rachel Crothers is a capable workman in the theatre. No play of hers can be bad, yet none has been exceptionally good. This last attempt is probably better than most...
...Workman at Ford's factory: "She's all right, but I think every man working his eight hours should ought to have...
...President of the Textile Syndicate, Tovarish Kilewicz, is a square-jawed bullet-headed onetime workman. As might many another self-made man, he admits that his subordinates have a monopoly of whatever technical training there is in the establishment. On the basis of their technical training, many pre-revolution bourgeosie, or even nobles, receive good salaries*-if they are adaptable and pliant to the Soviet...
...plots are so skilfully woven together that one has to wait for the writer to unravel them. Not until two-thirds of the way through the book does the writer find it necessary to conceal from the reader the surmises in the detective's mind. The writing is workman like ; only the proofreading is slipshod...
...that organization his views may be considered as holding a mid-point between the two extreme wings. Compared to the conservatives. Mr. Green is a progressive, and yet, compared to the radicals, he is decidedly a conservative. While he favors social legislation and is the author of the Ohio Workman's Compensation law, he opposes the "one big union" idea and the influence of the Third International in trade union affairs. He is radical enough to favor government ownership of the railroads, but he is conservative enough to oppose the entrance of organized labor into the insurance business...