For the 12 days he labored on Kinstone in Wisconsin, Mr. McBeth requested $2,000.
He labored on road crews and construction sites until they went away.
For two and a half years, he labored on a script.
He labored on it all weekend and every night after work, by the light of a single bulb powered by the generator, she said.
For some fifteen years, he labored on this work, resisting the urgings of his friends to complete it and make it public.
A near drowning while he labored on the Erie and Ohio Canal convinced him that God "had saved me for my mother and for something greater and better than canalling," he wrote.
From the stylish streets of SoHo, where he labored on the rising frame of the newest condo hotel to bear the Trump name, to the modest three-story brick walk-up in Greenpoint where the sounds of his early departure for work served as a virtual alarm clock for his landlady, Yuriy Vanchytskyy was remembered on Tuesday as a reliable, hard-working and cheerful presence.
He worked on many things during the years he labored on "Patience," including covers for the New Yorker magazine, but spoke little about the book in progress.
He labors for weeks on his horse ranch in Southern California and delivers the lyrics fully formed to Mr. John, who goes into a studio, props the papers on the piano and churns out melodies and harmonies to fit the words at breakneck speed.
At the event, he was reported to have "labored on," while "braving" the hot summer weather, giving way to a torrent of chatter that some mystery ailment had befallen Dear Leader.
