Word: ferdly
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...author is likewise merely a spectator when adults talk politics; when the workers march singing behind their arrested leader; when Germans who were once social and political enemies fall hysterically into each other's arms because "they need their hatred for the other people''; when philosophical Ferd is stoned for predicting Germany will lose the War; when the Battle of Verdun makes so many of his playmates orphans; when people, tired of Death and Patriotism, bootleg food under police noses; when two mutilated soldiers symbolically reveal the blood beneath the flag waving...
Seeker. These sights are interlinked with a perpetual seeking. At first the author senses a mystery; he wishes to know "how it is with human beings." Girls, he decides, are the mystery, for even the complex Ferd, whom he plainly adores, is not. With Hilde he craftily sets about a solution, but neither of them, aged 12, knows quite what to do. For three marks the butcher's boy consents to exhibit the mystery with a Polish girl, but the author runs away believing the girl is being murdered. When he later undresses the sleeping Mein-chen, a farm...
...Cynthiana, Ky., one Homer Reeves, Hooverite, shot & killed one Ferd Lyons, Smithite. In Spencer, West Va., one E. H. Huffman shot one Clyde Moore. In Brooklyn, one Walter McCann, realtor, with a diamond stickpin, diamond ring and $600 in Hoover bets, was fed knock-out drops and virulent poison, robbed and left dead near a speakeasy. In Boston, Miss Gertrude Ryan, secretary to U. S. Representative George Tinkham, told the police that a carful of young Democrats crowded her automobile off the road, maltreated herself and sister, beat her nephew. In Worcester, Mass., a parade of 10,000 Hooverites...
...Ferd Hiram Gage, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, Harvard, offers his services to students and others who may desire to purchase horses for riding or driving...