Word: goad
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Alone he created Saturday's Children, a drama of marriage between young things who must earn their living. Act I: heroine gets man by an old-time formula. Act II: romance wilts before love is done. Gas bills, grocers, butchers, goad the lovers into separation and sorrowing. Act III: comes reconciliation when the hero steals into his wife's bedroom for the same good reason that inspired young Porphyro to see Magdeline on the Eve of St. Agnes...
...York. They will applaud the terse descriptions of air action, heavily salted with realism and cynicism. They will admire Clayton Knight's sketches of havoc-ridden skies. They will remember the writer as they remember other men in his pages-big "Ros" Fuller, Clarence Fry, John Goad, "Hobey" Baker, "Micky" Mannock, superb Major Bishop (and his wife) and Pilot Springs, who flew with milk of magnesia in one pocket, gin in the other...
...state. These "new" South Carolinians are described as trying to be both boosters and oldtime Southern gentlemen. The result shows itself in blatherskite politicians like its Senator Cole Blease.* This new gentry is composed of many who believe that, if they join the Ku Klux Klan and goad the Negroes, they are thereby keeping alive the traditions of the Old South. They are quite different from the old Southern gentleman "who knew how to handle the Negro...
...awfully and terribly aloof. When his stern jaw relaxes he can and does smile with a kindling light in his eyes. But searing experience has shown the man of steel that Russia must be driven, that only one man can drive. Recently Death took from M. Stalin the especial goad which he had set to spur Russian labor on to adequate production - Felix E. Dzerzhinsky, president of the Supreme Economic Council (TIME, Aug. 2). For the past fortnight it has been touted that M. Dzerzhinsky was murdered by agents of M. Zinoviev and M. Kamenev. To put down any hint...
...century; hand mills, such as were used by the women of old and are used by the women of old and are used by the women of today in Palestine; agricultural implements, as the one-handled plow, which no man could guide while looking backwards, or the plowman's goad against which the prodded animal kicks in vain; skin and parchment scrolls of portions of the Hebrew Scriptures; Syriac manuscripts of the New Testament, many century; old; part of the Epistle to the Romans written on papyrus; in the fourth century; and so forth...