workingman

The free market revolutionary as an average Joe, chatting up the workingman.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2022

They want the moribund broadsheet to trounce the Daily Mail and become the voice of the British workingman.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 29, 2019

It’s what a workingman might eat standing up while his daintier compatriots nibble on nigiri at a proper sushi bar; sushi that occasionally improves in a 7-Eleven refrigerator case.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2017

Historians still debate over whom, specifically, to credit with the idea of a holiday dedicated to the workingman.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2015

He brought this picture all the way from America where he found it thrown out by someone who had no time for the workingman.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

If the court kept overturning the New Deal, he reasoned, there would be “marching farmers and marching miners and marching workingmen throughout the land.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024

While workingmen loyal to unions had long resented the Pinkertons, conflicts between industrialists and labor also alarmed lawmakers and “respectable” citizens, and they wondered whether the Pinkertons’ existence was making everything worse.

From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2019

Wright made a sensational impression with her speeches and her newspaper, the Free Enquirer, but her religious and sexual nonconformity won her few friends outside a small circle of radical New York workingmen.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

Like many of his peers, Sargent believed that the bodies of workingmen were deformed by their efforts, made asymmetrical and even weak.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2016

Owen’s plan was to welcome everyone, even to the point of encouraging workingmen to visit in the evening, and to devote most of the museum’s space to public displays.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson