Word: workman
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...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...
...hours, his two dogs watched William Joyce, aged 4, of Scranton, Pa., sinking into a pile of culm (coal refuse). When William was up to his neck in culm, the dogs looked at each other knowingly, scampered away, tugged at a workman's coat. Workman and dogs sped back to the culm. "Take the mud out of my eyes," said William when rescued...
...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...
...kind a better picture of the grim conditions of modern industry frustrating human life at every turn, of health happiness and love succumbing to start necessity. Fom first to last the play is naturally and convincingly acted. The lovers by Miss Dorothy Waterman and Mr. Robert Cushing the workman who was once so gay and now returns to beg for his old job, still trying pathetically to keep up his price, by Laurence Rittenband...
...Manhattan, Plasterers Paul Biejan and Seamons Fogler were seriously injured last week when a workman on a building under construction on 28th street, dropped near them a bottle of banana oil, which exploded...