Word: workman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held Gregalach's ticket, worth $886,360* explained that he had been unemployed for a week because, after it was known his ticket was for Gregalach, "my fellow employes would not let me work. They congratulated me and promised me everything and the boss told me to get out." Workman Woods announced that he would purchase his wife "an Easter outfit . . . buy that horse Gregalach and keep him in a velvet-lined stall," and give...
Mechanic Paul F. Kassay, tall and blond, learned to like the new workman who had been placed alongside him in the great Goodyear-Zeppelin dirigible dock at Akron, Ohio. This newcomer was of Hungarian descent and could understand Kassay's native Magyar. He, too, had "certain ideas" about this business of the Navy's new dirigible, Akron, largest in the world, which they and hundreds of others were building. High on the catwalks, just under the dome of the dock (which is so enormous that rainfall sometimes occurs inside), was an excellent place to talk privately while innumerable rivets were...
...workman's challenge to down a pint of "bitter" almost proved the candidate's undoing. Champagne is, in fact, his drink. Shrewd, he sidestepped the challenge temporarily, practiced at home by gargling bitter beer until he could down the horrid stuff publicly without making a wry face. In Smethwick, his constituency, beer is almost an article of the workingman's faith...
...conclusions: 1) "The Russian workman finds that the lash of yesteryear has been thrown away?the lash that, when stoutly laid across his shoulders, taught him to obey orders as given and get a move on"; 2) "No two Russians can do anything whatsoever without at least a half hour's preliminary conversation"; 3) "The effort a Russian must put forth in order to secure the most rudimentary essentials for sustaining life under the Soviet sweating process would make a man rich in America...
...feeling of the people as expressed in the referendum on the Baby Volstead Act. The committee on legal affairs has reported a bill legalizing a 4.5 per cent beer. The reason given for this act, which shows such a strong sentiment against the eighteenth amendment, is that the workman will no longer have the incentive to consume the harmful hard liquors...