Word: workman
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...thinks London stinks. job workman, he was the oldest son in a family of four sons and seven daughters. He was a rebellious, difficult child. When he was sent to school, the teacher asked him to spell "a." He couldn't, and the other children laughed. "I swore I wouldn't learn to read and write, they wouldn't make me." Obstinately, he stuck to that vow, left school at 14 without having learned to read a sentence. He got odd jobs as milkman, baker, house painter, hospital orderly. "Sometime I quit, sometimes they sacked...
...young Chicago newspaperman, Ben Hecht once found himself standing in a train shed awaiting the arrival of a VIP when he observed a workman lying underneath a locomotive. "His legs protruded from the thighs down. I noted that the locomotive had steam up and that its bell was ringing." Next minute "the workman's long legs were lying on the platform . . . The rest of him . . . remained between the tracks." Just then the VIP's train pulled in, so Reporter Hecht left "the bloody scene" and hurried off to his interview. "I had felt no shock at what...
...bulk from the Cambridge Power and Electric Light Company, crossing the river at one point underneath the floor of Week's Bridge. In the upper left photograph, a worker is making one of his periodic inspections of the tunnel along Memorial Drive near Dunster. House. Directly above, a workman is producing the sundry signs that inform the student what he may or may not do. This task is also performed at the Memorial Drive shops...
...former chief of the University police is not a workman and therefore is not entitled to workmen's compensation for injuries received while attempting to quiet a College uprising, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decreed...
...Court noted that Randall's duties included supervision of 30 officers, handling of University traffic and parking, and imposition of penalties for violations. It concluded that these are not the duties of the ordinary workman...