workingman
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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
His old friend Patti Smith, writing in The New Yorker, called him “our generation’s New York poet, championing its misfits as Whitman had championed its workingman and Lorca its persecuted.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2015
Historians still debate over whom, specifically, to credit with the idea of a holiday dedicated to the workingman.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2015
Dad says he was a Pope, Leo the Thirteenth, a great friend of 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
These were workingmen, providers, not activists but voters, certainly.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2020
It was as early as this phase in the company’s history that workingmen began to resent Pinkerton’s presence.
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
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
