Word: hardens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shadowy mustache loved each other, planned to be married. That was before the War. The War forced first the old men, then the women to work the fields, drive wavering plough-furrows through the hard earth. Madeline's white skin and plump cheeks turn weather-brown, her muscles harden. She is admired as the finest woman in the whole village. Sebastien, on harvest-leave, admires her too. But when a man admires a woman, he no longer wants her. This is but one of the tragedies that mutilate the lives of peasant women when their men are at war. Madeline...
...gray face of a spent civilization. . . . When the old Roman Empire passed away, the gleam remained, evoking a face of its own, the Roman Catholic Church. . . . For many years it shone like the morning sun struggling to break through a lowered sky. But then the face began to harden. . . . The features stood out in grotesque distortion, the mouth very wide from shrieking anathemas, the nose long and sharp to detect heresies; and the skin was covered with the scabs of corruption...
...HARDEN FEE-Gerald Bullett-Knopf ($2.50). "And the next I do knaw, us be noaten across the grass, and there afront of us, setten on our green downs, neighbors, be a parcel of blessed angels. Hugy gurt baastards they be, twenny feet or more from crown to anklebone, and some of 'em as black as coal. . . ."-thus honest Yokel Mykelborne holding forth in the taproom to his fellow-worthies, who listened chopfallen, goggle-eyed. Such fine and pungent talk was to be had almost any evening in the inn at Marden Fee, and it is the chorus of talk...
...getting stuff put on their faces and waiting for it to harden...
Second of the endorsers was a man with a name to dispel any doubts that any one might have entertained concerning the significance of the process or the nature of the testimonials. He was Samuel Harden Church, 72, president of the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh,? onetime vice president of Pennsylvania Railroad, an officer of the Legion of Honor, author of many books (Oliver Cromwell, A History, a 15-volume Corporate History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Lines West of Pittsburgh}, a Republican campaign speaker, possessor of a sword presented to him by Governor