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...excessively famed species of tapestry created in the 16th Century by the Gobelin family and manufactured by the State since the days of Louis XIV. Its production requires such extreme skill and care that the most experienced workman can turn out only a few square feet a year, naturally at a price eclipsing that of all but the most valuable oil paintings. The Gobelins, originally a family of dyers from Reims, were able to purchase patents of nobility through the sale of their tapestries and are not mentioned as artisans later than the 17th Century...
...Alderman Lambeth paused amid dead silence for one minute and twelve seconds during the course of a speech which he was making in Borough Council anent labor conditions. Resuming his speech, he declared: "You have just sat and fidgeted through the 72-second eternity which it takes the average workman to lay one brick...
...Lady's Virtue. Rachel Crothers is a capable workman in the theatre. No play of hers can be bad, yet none has been exceptionally good. This last attempt is probably better than most...
...Workman at Ford's factory: "She's all right, but I think every man working his eight hours should ought to have...
...President of the Textile Syndicate, Tovarish Kilewicz, is a square-jawed bullet-headed onetime workman. As might many another self-made man, he admits that his subordinates have a monopoly of whatever technical training there is in the establishment. On the basis of their technical training, many pre-revolution bourgeosie, or even nobles, receive good salaries*-if they are adaptable and pliant to the Soviet...