Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...volume is logically and cleverly written, not difficult to understand...
...silver gifts amid silver-decked palms, with the stateliest ladies of Cuba in attendance wearing cloth-of-silver gowns. Cried the Island Republic's No. 1 lawyer, silver-tongued young Dr. Mario Lazo: "Of course this Country Club of Havana is not the most important of the difficult things Mr. Snare has founded here. The most important thing is the spirit of understanding and affection which exists today between the people of Havana and the foreigners who reside here or visit here. Show me another community in the world where such a spirit exists and I will look...
...considered mildly mad. Cuban mothers cooped up their daughters in the Spanish tradition of despotic chaperonage tempered by matrimonial intrigue. And Mr. Frederick Snare was a rising U. S. contracting engineer who in Cuba specialized, as he still does, in "Piers and Warehouses, Power Plants, Bridges, Sugar Mills and Difficult Foundations...
...Harding is not nearly so heroic as usually. Perhaps there is too much martyrdom in her characterization of Mrs. Talbot. But it is difficult to be ungenerously harsh on a really good, tear-jerking performance. Margaret Lindsay does so well as a cold, hard, feeling less woman that we are inclined to forgive her unfelicitous roles of the past. Thus "The Lady Consents" is an admirably cast melodrama of matrimony which you mustn't miss...
...running a trail, Proctor goes down ahead of them and stops on some difficult turn. As the others follow, he watches to see if they take the curve the right way. Then he tells them the proper line to follow and where to check...