Word: haggard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HAGGARD (H. Rider) Black Heart and White Heart. Scarce...
After the emotional severity in the "passion" group, the second gallery, that devoted to the Dreyfus case, is relieving. The color is livelier, the faces are illuminated with genuine human feeling; the smiling rascality and the jovial bonhommie of the French shines through the haggard mask of the flesh. Dreyfus is not burdened with the martyrdom so often found in literature, and the sketches of the principals in the trial have a delightful vivacity. The impression of Zola is of somewhat alarming proportions, but thoroughly healthy. The spectator is given the idea that either Shahn did the work in this...
Dixie Bee. It was midnight on the Wabash. Eight miles inland from the Indiana bank, 64 haggard non-union miners and one woman held the Dixie Bee coal mine, besieged by an invisible swarm of union pickets. For a day and a night and a day their rifles and revolvers had stood off hundreds, possibly thousands, of John L. Lewis' men, squatting in a cornfield, crouching behind a railroad embankment, sniping from a patch of woods. The barricaded tipple house was pockmarked with bullets. One sharpshooting picket had been drilled dead. Within the mine on burlap sacks lay four defenders...
...ideas, even when they were wholly foreign to him. And his capacity for sticking to such ideas until they had been set down clearly with illuminating, readable detail. Nothing was too much trouble for him.' . . He worked, as everyone now knows, fnuch too hard, really. He wore himself haggard in those early days when the entire reference library would be lugged over Monday night to the printing shop on 12th Avenue and Brit would stay there, often until long after Tuesday sunrise, correcting messy page proofs, catching factual errors, improving captions or footnotes, fitting important stories into impossibly small...
Consequences of Professor Henderson's emphasis of the necessity of carbon dioxide in breathing are many. With able Assistant Professor Howard Wilcox Haggard, he has demonstrated them...