Word: workaday
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Spinner Harry Jackson, waiting for work in a Bolton mill, explained how it happened to him. "My wife works in the mill. Now she's on short time. Last week we were earning together nearly ?18 ($50.58); now, only four or five." In grim, workaday Bolton, where a third of the population depends on the mills, there were thousands of Harry Jacksons. In crowded Lancashire, there were 70,000 wholly or partly unemployed...
...turn aside for a moment from the tedious, workaday aspects of haute couture...
...workaday schoolrooms of Ottawa's Joan of Arc Institute were bright with holiday colors as proud fathers & mothers gathered for the annual Christmas pageant. Word soon got around that a distinguished family was in the audience: Canada's Governor General Viscount Alexander of Tunis, his wife Lady Alexander and their two sons, Shane and Brian. Then everyone quieted down to watch the nursery school actors dance and do their little play called Where Do You Come From, Shepherd...
...Electricity Board was appointed in 1947, the colonel knew just the right spot for its headquarters. With a little remodeling, stately Scarcroft Lodge, a 120-year-old mansion overlooking 160 acres of rolling farmland, would be absolutely top-hole. It was situated well beyond the industrial smog of ugly, workaday Leeds (pop. 510,000). There was a little matter of building permits before Scarcroft could be remodeled, but the colonel soon fixed that. He had a word with the Ministry of Fuel and Power, got permission to spend $112,000 on scarce building materials for his new offices...
Winnie & Greatness. The Conservatives' biggest campaign gun went off in workaday Liverpool, a Labor stronghold. In the city's sooty stadium, home of champion boxers and second-rate wrestlers, 76-year-old Battler Winston Churchill, looking like a grey kewpie, swung some grandiloquent haymakers at Labor's bungling of the Iranian oil dispute, which the London Observer called a diplomatic defeat in some ways worse than Munich. "It will be my duty," said Winnie, "to expose the melancholy story of inadvertence, incompetence, indecision and final collapse which has marked the policy of our Socialist rulers...