Word: contentedness
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This is the second lot of tax, you know, On money that I earned two years ago (The shark, they say, by no means Nature's knight, Will rest contented with a single bite: The barracuda, who's a fish more fell, Comes back and takes the other...
"The Riviera folk have been kicked around by everybody. They are very suspicious of anybody who wants to change their customs. Yet, despite the fact that they cling to their old customs, we think that if we. as a member of the Peace Corps, could have just one summer with...
Contented Hussy. The novel, catching some of the steppe-wide sweep of his epic And Quiet Flows the Don (1934), brims with Sholokhov's vast love of Russia and all Russians, Red or White, workers or shirkers. When an anti-Communist is shot dead, a Communist leader muses. "He...
Second Norman Rockwell. He remained schizophrenic to the end. He prospered in the U.S., seemed blind to the Depression, was so contented on canvas that some admirers began to wonder whether he might not have been serious when he said that he would like to be a second Norman Rockwell...
As they rushed to finish a 38,000-lb. order of jelly for shipment to Chicago last week, the workers in the preserves factory outside Spencer, Mass, would have made any boss happy. They worked relentlessly, spoke not a word, took no coffee or cigarette breaks, smiled constantly. Occasionally, they...