Word: workaday
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Hence there is a somewhat more workaday point of view throughout the book, and mixed in with the anecdotes, gobbets of such practical information as how to handle drunks, raucous, tearful or belligerent; comparative analyses of drunks, male and female; how to tell when a fight is brewing and how to stop it. Collectors of contemporary Americana should note that the book contains an introduction by Ernest Hemingway. Largely made up of veiled, bitter aspersions on ladies who run salons and write memoirs, it is only too apparently another reply to Gertrude Stein's strictures on Hemingway...
Laymen who hear scientists indulging in polysyllabic shop talk are likely to regard them as cloistered visionaries who pay scant attention to what is going on in the workaday world. Last week, however, a bevy of savants approaching Chapel Hill, N. C., showed that they at least glance at the front pages of their newspapers. The American Chemical Society was holding a convention at the University of North Carolina. The chemists detrained at Durham, where arrangements had been made to convey them by bus the twelve miles to Chapel Hill. In the line of special busses waiting at the Durham...
...seems reasonable, review the existing state of our national affairs and outline broad future problems, leaving specific recommendations for future legislation to be made by the President about to be inaugurated." Having settled that matter of precedent, Franklin Roosevelt settled down to what appeared to be almost such a workaday enumeration of the problems confronting the Government as Calvin Coolidge used to give. Chief difference was that the Roosevelt voice cloaked them with an aura of statesmanship. He mentioned that he would ask Congress for quick action to extend the expiring life of certain authorizations and powers (for example...
...mean conconcentration in one of the laboratory sciences, now stands for ignorance of Latin. Now concentrators in biochemistry, who have knocked off Latin CP, whatever it is, are presented with the Bachelor of Arts degree, while men in the fine arts are sent every now and then into this workaday world squirming under the mark of the beast of the laboratories...
...opinion is delivered not by Author Christina Stead herself but by one of her characters; but she writes as if it were true. The Beauties and Furies, like her earlier books (The Salzburg Tales, Seven Poor Men of Sydney) is something rich and strange, bears the same relation to workaday life as Ariel's song to a drowned...