Word: clod
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...community of cabbage-growing Dutch-American yokels where Selina goes to teach school, she finds the velvet worn thin. She marries a farmer. When he dies, she struggles to give her son advantages that eventually make him ashamed of her. Become almost a clod herself, she is finally powerless to show him why he should be working in an architect's office for $35 a week instead of grubbing greedily in the stock market. Selina's only triumph comes, not from her son, but from an artist who, long before, had understood her assertion that cabbage-fields were...