Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese Lowestoft porcelain was never made in Lowestoft, England. It is 18th & 19th Century Chinese porcelain turned principally on upper Kiang Si province, decorated in Canton by Chinese workmen with coats of arms, religious symbols, ships and other designs supplied by British and American colonial buyers. The porcelain was sometimes carried in the ships of the Dutch East India Company to Amsterdam. Some of the early British orders were taken and delivered by the firm of Baker & Allen of Lowestoft, who stamped the porcelain with their own mark, hence the name...
...like after detectives had been "shellacking" some suspected Italian kidnappers: "An inch of blood covered the floors, walls and desks in the different rooms. Broken blackjacks, rubber hose and the parts of four broken chairs were scattered in the mess. The men ruined their clothes and looked more like workmen employed in an abattoir than detectives." Third-degree methods, says Lavine, are sometimes applied to women. "He [the detective] merely shows what a big, strong guy he is by starting to lift her from the ground by her hair. That usually makes her feel more like talking. Or, especially...
...straight question," broke in another Englishman. "What means will you use to find out if a man is drinking in his private time? Will your workmen at Dagenham [new Ford British works] be followed into their homes and penalized for exercising their private rights? Will you give a straight answer to that...
...convinced that German workmen will do good work here...
Last week in Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, a strangely assorted crowd stood about a new bronze statue. In the group were famed financiers in custom-made clothes, old workmen whose trousers showed a bag at the knees through the newly acquired press, young mechanics with large browned hands. All of them were there to honor the late great George Westinghouse, inventor, industrialist. Many present had worked with him, had known him as "The Old Man," whose impetuous, unreasoning temper and whose wholehearted consideration were amazing contradictions. The statue, erected by Westinghouse employes and friends, memorialized the genius which, though lately overshadowed...