Word: alards
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...HOUSE OF ALARD- Sheila Kaye-Smith-Dutton ($2.00). Here is another lengthy, careful study of the decay of an English county family by the author of Joanna Godden. The Alards were land-poor and stubborn with pride-they could afford to keep two cars for the sake of their position but they could not afford the most necessary repairs on their farms. As a matter of economic fact they cumbered the ground, and the slow pressure of economic facts at last destroyed them. A thorough, complete dissection of an acute problem in present-day England-well worth reading...