Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cold wintry morning pretty, ineffectual Marcia Ward opened her door to a pale, grey-eyed peddler who promptly took charge of the household. Beginning by baking a pie despite Marcia's protests, the peddler, whose name was Hannah Parmalee and who was obviously a cultivated woman beneath her dowdy exterior, launched a series of domestic reforms that saved the harassed Ward family. She cleaned out the basement and sold the unused furniture for $39. She found a cheaper way of buying coal. She persuaded little Wallie Ward to take his castor oil. (She put it in front...
Next morning across the top of every Sunday Hearstpaper in the land streamed this headline: 'COMMUNISTS CAN JOIN ... IN ... SUPPORTING ROOSEVELT' SAYS BROWDER. Beneath it was a long, well-documented exposition of current Red strategy. Simultaneously on the front pages of the nation's press (the Hearstpapers included ) appeared the well-timed Roosevelt retort...
...beginning of an institution which is almost twice as old as the Republic it has so ably served, and whose history it embraces and reflects. Harvard had been open a hundred years when incipient young rebels like John and Samuel Adams and James Otis placidly penned their exercises beneath the Lion & Unicorn of the Georges. Four years before the British burned the U. S. Capitol, John Kirkland began his brilliant presidency of Harvard (1810-28) which gave the University its Law and Divinity schools, turned out such ornaments of U. S. Literature as Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Hickling Prescott, George...
...driven by a fierce determination to get out of the slums, became a white-collar worker, married a good, respectable girl, but landed in trouble when he was forced to lead a strike. Aside from these two, the clearest characterization is Lizzie, Johnnie's wife, who married beneath her station, became obsessed with her husband's fighting ability, egged him into one fight after another, provided him with girls when his passion for her ended. Although these figures are sometimes vividly seen, they tend to disappear or grow cloudy as the descriptions of the customs and habits...
When the flame reaches the leather and the tender foot beneath it, the quiet ends...