Word: workaday
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...being a stark military necessity, it's also a way forward to a great dignity and more secure status and recognition for working people. If this war means anything at all, it means broadening our concept of democracy to include men having an understanding and some control of their workaday lives...
Lifeless Living. Workaday Germany is no less tired than in winter, for work hours are still 60 hours a week for men, 56 hours for most women. The pay is still low: whole families work and pool wages to make a livable family income. After work, men stand an hour or more in line in front of tobacco shops to get five cigarets, made, they say, of "sunburned grass." Women stand before candy stores to get the 20 pieces of candy allowed each person monthly. They have to visit seven or eight shops to add a vegetable or fruit...
...when work is finished, workaday Germans go to parks...
...give powerful expression to new needs. Milton is such a voice, as Wordsworth discovered during the Napoleonic crisis: "Milton! thou should' st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee!" History is again making Milton a modern. His voice, too loud, too austere, too commanding for workaday use, has become the tone in which troubled men think...
...phthisis, psychic, and ptarmigan"), the fastidious young man who calls everybody "Comrade," and almost alone among Wodehouse fauna has enough wits to live by. There is the epic of Jeeves, the infallible, verse-quoting valet ("We are in the autumn, sir, season of mists and mellow fruitfulness"). In the workaday world Jeeves might seem like an average enough gentleman's gentleman but stacked up beside Bertie Wooster, to whose harebrained Don Quixote he plays a discreet Sancho Panza, Jeeves looks like an intellectual giant. There is also Mr. Mulliner, of the bar parlor at the Angler's Rest...