Word: workman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...votes of the present members of the House of Lords; and second that Mr. MacDonald, with the Naval Conference on his hands, would chuck it and go to the country for a General Election, sure to win by a huge majority on the issue of whether the jobless workman should be deprived of his "dole" by the House of Loafers...
Some 260 miles above Warsaw, a surly workman was discharged from a chemical factory last week. In revenge he broke a petcock, emptied a 3,500-gal. tank of carbolic acid into the river Czarna. Warsaw blanched, for the Czarna flows into the Pilika, and the Pilika flows into the Vistula, and the Vistula flows past Warsaw, and from it the city gets its water supply, filtering it at a great reservoir outside Warsaw. Officials at the Warsaw waterworks endeavored to calm apprehensions, pointed out that after floating 75 miles, 3,500 gal. of carbolic acid would purify rather than...
...Saroya was satisfactorily bloodthirsty as Judith. Russian Basso Ivan Steschenko sang sonorously as Holofernes but failed to make intelligible the pompous passages done by Novelist Bennett in the Biblical idiom. British Composer Goossens conducted his music which, if lacking in originality, at least proved him a skilled and energetic workman...