workingman
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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
People in motor cars will always give the workingman a lift to Dublin.
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
This reminds us that Sinclair, a committed socialist who dedicated “The Jungle” to the workingmen of America, was disappointed by his book’s impact.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 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
Democrats were also popular among farmers, artisans, and urban workingmen who feared that economic change could end their opportunities and independence.
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
