Word: artisans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boys buy their own tools, the tuition is the work they do. Cabinets, carved wood, original in conception but steeped in the old Italian spirit are sold to the equal benefit of the shop and the young artisan...
...decoration from fiction, and I have told it as it happened . . . merely touching history with imagination and making the true characters live." Marie Antoinette was a lovely martyr in white dimity and ash-gold hair; Louis, her royal spouse, a wistful dullard who would have made an honest artisan. The worldly cardinal who passionately loved Antoinette nevertheless caused her miserable downfall because he was the dupe of a scheming court slut. This clever minx stole the necklace, implicated the queen in the scandal, but herself rode screaming and scratching to the Bastille...
...done at the age our young men come to college. The result is that with the preparation now required for professional and business life--much longer than it was formerly--the young man does not begin his active career until a later age than is wise. An artisan at the age of 20 may be earning as large an income, and be as well able to support a family, as he ever will be; but his contemporary who is looking forward to the bar or to medicine, for example, is only half way through college at that time. The ordinary...
...Pompeian artisan pounded a sheet of bronze into the shape of a reed pen. It served well for writing. Then Pompeii was drowned in Vesuvian dust and barbarians destroyed what part of Rome that the Romans themselves did not destroy. Men forgot metal pens...
...intends to delve into the past, and see what he can find; like the oysterman who drops his rake through the dark waters with the hope of bringing to light at least a few of his stolid prey and perhaps sometimes a rare gem, or like that other, humbler artisan who enriches--but then that is beside the point...