Word: workmanly
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...since been shouted into hollowness by Communists and diehard nationalists. The national economy has been cemented into an immobile Maginot Line for the defense of the nervous and unimaginative: cartels at the top benefit the industrialists, social security and subsidies at the bottom take care of the workman and the farmer...
Actually, Thayer (1849-1921) was a better painter than modern critics are likely to allow. Critic James Flexner, for example, dismisses Thayer as a "workman" who "worked out a delicate and bloodless version of femininity which, draped or even undraped, was more pleasing to refined purchasers than the hardy realism of Homer and Eakins...
...injured workman had just stepped from a ladder when his foot slipped on the icy bark. Witnesses said that he landed on his feet...
Hurricane Hazel indirectly claimed another casualty Monday afternoon when an inexperienced workman, James Swain (shown on stretcher, above) fell 22 feet from a Yard tree, which he was mending after storm damage...
...workmen in Borgo San Sepolcro were remodeling a building that was, in Piero's time, the church of Sant' Agostino, but has since been turned into a movie theater and the home of the local symphony. While repairing a wall in what was once the apse, a workman touched a loose piece of plaster (spread on by Franciscan nuns who took over the church in the 16th century); it broke away under his hand. Beneath the plaster was a life-sized painting of a haloed young man, fair-haired with wide, topaz eyes. One look was enough...