Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fine story succeeded in flushing out an old friend, co-worker and protagonist of Jackson Pollock's. It's me. I was a high school chum of Pollock's, later in 1930 we left Los Angeles for New York to broaden ourselves technically. We began a hard classic training at the Art Students League. To pay for our tuition and materials, we shared studios, worked as bus boys, garbage removers and dishwashers at the League cafeteria. School over, we hung up our respective shingles in the Village as professionals...
...Salt Lake City, own canneries, insurance companies, banks, number among their ruling Twelve Apostles a U.S. Cabinet officer (Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson). Members in good standing donate a tenth of their incomes to the church. Five thousand missionaries from the U.S. and 1,700 native missionaries are hard at work and there are Mormons in every country of the world...
...every club sold bearing their name, holding down cushy jobs at swank country clubs, where they charge up to $50 a lesson. For a further fee, they sing the praises of cigarettes, fishing tackle and sport clothes. Playing only in occasional major events, the old pros find it hard to keep their game sharp enough for tournament competition...
...sees it, the soft green leaf may well be a nettle in disguise, and danger lurks on all sides. It is hard to trust people-"If they slap me on the back, maybe the next time they slap me they'll have a knife." On the other hand, so few people are really grateful to him: "It's not that I need credit. But somewhere along the line the dog should be patted on the head." If some neighborhood toughs honk their horns outside his house to annoy him, he speaks of being "hounded by degenerates...
...vivid and poignant modern samples of ravaged Roman: General Stilwell's World War II motto, "Illegitimati non carborundum [Don't let the bastards grind you down],' and Adlai Stevenson's classic cry of anguish, "Via oviciptum dura est [The way of the egghead is hard...