Word: workman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people who last week stood jammed along the fences of the Pimlico track in Maryland while two horses moved round the turn into the stretch, with the little jockeys hunched forward and moving their legs like frogs swimming-Ambrose on Edward Beale. McLean's Toro, Workman on Harry Payne Whitney's Victorian. Noses together, so close the jockeys could have whispered to each other, the humping horses moved toward the wire; nobody could tell which had won the $61,000 stake until a Number 7, Victorian's number, went up on the board...
...culture, charm and quickening ideas. Gifted with a pliant temperament, she got on excellently well with the Marshal's first wife, the late Maria Litinska Pilsudska, who was her husband's first collaborator in the secret and dangerous work of putting forth a Socialist newspaper Robotnik (The Workman) under the pre-War Tsarist régime in Poland...
...Workman's Compensation." Professor Fairley. Emerson...
Down a well-greased slide, at Glasgow, lurched, last week, the portly Duchess of Bedford. A burly workman had tipped the mechanism of the slide, giving her a shove. At her had been hurled a bottle of champagne by Mrs. Stanley Baldwin, pious, charitable wife of the Prime Min- ister...
...Majesty & Her Majesty patriotically impersonated, last week, the roles of a stupid workman and workwoman trying to operate complex factory machinery on the good old British plan for "muddling through." Scene: the "Safety in Industry" room at the new Home Office Industrial Museum, London...