Word: workman
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...grows old waiting for her lover who, of course, has been married for years. Slightly impressionistic poetry, music, and dances, add to the mood of gentle wistful tragedy. The Harvard-Radcliffe production, with superior music by Irving Fine, dances by Mary Small, and Phyllis Stohl's generally tight, workman like direction, gets this across with a few lapses. Such are a slow third act in which the actors are a little too influenced by Chekov, and a few overplayed moments in the first two acts...
...workman on the shore yelled: "What's the matter? River too tough...
...called the program the "American Beveridge Plan," but this was a whopping misnomer. Sir William's plan was specific to a farthing: it proposed a pounds-&-shillings schedule of social security payments for unemployment, illness, accident, old age, marriage, birth and death. It set the cost to workman, employer and Government. And it went no farther than these specifics in discussing Government's responsibility for the security of its citizens...
...Methods. For this snappy comeback all nosegays go to production-ace Jack and his incredible business policies. J. & H.'s five plants - four in Bedford, Ohio and one in Cleveland - are a nifty combination of a college campus, a workman's paradise and zooming production. J. & H. has a band to rival Ohio State's, victory song and cheerleaders, boisterous parties to celebrate production records...
...terrific for factory feeders, but so are their headaches: high prices, labor problems, food shortages and equipment and maintenance shortages. These make caterers' chief peacetime problems-practical jokers and snitchers-seem almost academic. But at least one big factory feeder still remembers with horror the day when a workman slipped some potassium cyanide he had pinched from the production line into some of its sandwiches. Before the "joke" was discovered, one man had died and another had had a close call...