Word: workmanship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cheap muslin. When this is satisfactory, the muslin serves as a pattern. Compared to her costs, Sophie's selling prices of $255 to $1,500 are comparatively modest. Example: in her most expensive evening dress, the ermine trim alone cost $500, the chiffon another $76, overhead and workmanship, $294. With the markup of 42%, the selling price...
...elaborate," wrote the late Woodrow Wilson, in an old letter just made public last week. The professor-President was criticizing his own literary Style. "The transitions are managed too Smoothly . . ." he wrote. "The treatment plays in circles. . . . The sentences are too obviously wrought out with a nice workmanship. They do not sound as if they had come spontaneously...
Oriana Atkinson liked the Russians enormously, admired their unfailing kindness as hosts, was touched by their uncomplaining acceptance of endless labor for pathetic rewards. In other ways, too, her reactions were typical of U.S. visitors to Moscow. She was annoyed by the sloppy workmanship everywhere, by the suffocating snarls of red tape, by one-party ballots which made elections a farce, by the fear of ordinary citizens to speak without looking over their shoulders. She saw prostitutes solicit openly (the Soviet Government proudly claims that it has ended prostitution in Russia), found beggars everywhere, watched black-marketeers operating in public...
...peroration, written by Philosopher Hocking, the Commission for once rose to the level of its argument. "The journalist," said he, "sometimes reflects that his art is one of improvisation, and that its products, being destined to pass with the interest of the moment, require no great care in their workmanship. Yet, just because it is the day's report of itself, it is the permanent word of that day to all other days. The press must be free because its freedom is a condition of its veracity, and its veracity is its good faith with the total record...
...earth. Delta Wedding, which is Author Welty's first novel, is likely to provoke in readers the same old mixture of puzzlement over the odd people in it and respect for the sensitive, nimble hand that pulls the strings. Every page is filled with a sensitivity and workmanship that raise it far above the level of most novels; but also into an atmosphere that most readers may find too rare to breathe...