Word: workman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mencken's Book,* like the first five volumes of its series, lives up to its title. Author Mencken's style is that of a capable blacksmith. His hammer is large and noisy but it usually descends squarely on his anvil. So gritty are the workman's hands, so sweaty is his face that it is easy not to realize that for the most part he is engaged upon no more important a task than flattening pennies...
...line, whose presence was hardly noticeable against Purdue, showed the most startling improvement. The Crimson forwards mopped up in workman-like fashion on most plays and were mopped up on a very small minority of plays. An epitome of the new spirit in the line was presented in the second period. Drais, Holy Cross end, took a long pass from Ryan and was thrown on the three-yard chalk-mark. For three downs the wall of Crimson jerseys held like a concrete abutment, and Clancy had to divenover the scrimmage line to tally the Purple's only points...
Soon the superintendent of the Trinity Building discovered Joseph Fodor, workman, dressed in a blue suit, jumping lippety-lip along the parapets that border the roof. Informed that his daring high kicks, his cool pirouettes, his shocking splits excited the office workers, Joseph Fodor stopped and made this statement: "It was great sport dancing on the edge of things. There can be nothing like it unless it is flying. I should like to fly some time. But I shall dance no more, at least not here...
...Rubbernecks and idlers were offered rusty nails at $1 apiece, from the White House roof, now being repaired, before the police stopped the workman who was selling them...
...week in Carnegie Hall, at the end of Guest Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler's third season with the New York Philharmonic. In 1925 he first came as guest conductor, a studious young man from Berlin and Vienna who had pleased without enchanting. Last year he was a serious, efficient workman, but sometimes also an experimenter, a personality to the few. This winter he permitted his private feelings more rein and the audience knew him for its own man. Of no one was there more good talk in musical Manhattan than of the tall, concentrated, sparse-haired primate of the Philharmonic...