Like waitresses, taxi dancers, women who danced with male customers for a small fee, created a cooperative atmosphere with each other both in the closed dance halls in which they worked and outside of the workplace.

If I tells Pa Satisfied that ye said that, Myry, muttered the boy, he wouldn't wait for the law to handle Ben Letts — he'd shoot his dum head offen him quicker than a cat can blink.

a chartered surveyor, a chartered accountant

Each of the cross-members must withstand a tensile load of 1,000 newtons.