Word: workaday
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Under the Robes. It was a court in shirtsleeves. There was nothing about it that was austere or remote. It was earnestly social-minded, close to workaday problems, generally measured its decision by the utilitarian yardstick of "the greatest good for the greatest number." The Nine were no respecters of economic and business traditions...
...only a matter of days before the big invasion, when some 150,000 graduating college seniors would fan out over the workaday U.S. in search of jobs. What kind of people would they turn out to be? This week, after interviewing deans, campus placement bureaus, business recruiters and seniors, FORTUNE gave an answer...
...cubism. To make a little money for his old age, Villon had had to turn aside from his dogged cubism to do newspaper cartoons, architectural prints, and color reproductions of the paintings of his famous contemporaries. In his new life, he no longer had to worry about such workaday chores. At 74, Villon was selling as never before, and he had become the toast of Paris' young painters. His new pictures, they agreed, pointed a new path for French...
...basis of the survey, the statisticians had a recommendation: more students ought to be getting set for the workaday world of the trades or should be prepared for a start as clerks and office workers...
...other $100,000-a-year executive in the U.S. has to put up with the wearisome workaday details that a President does. There are also hundreds of U.S. citizens, great & small, constantly clamoring for his attention. "I wish someone would lock the gate," sighed Appointment Secretary Matt Connelly. "The pressure is terrific...