Word: hards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frame down to the desk of Chief of the Militia Bureau in the War Department at Washington. Well did militiamen know that this new Federal director of their organizations in 48 states has long been leading a double life: that he is as much a soldier, seasoned in hard service, as he is a preacher potent in the pulpit...
...square chin is softened by the fact that it tops a neck like that of a warbling thrush or bullfrog. But the mustache is close-clipped, businesslike, and the hard, unflickering hazel eyes keep their level aim behind efficient, rimless glasses. Appropriately L'Americain is of mixed blood, with a faint ancestral dash of German...
After an hour of hard old-fashioned football. Harvard's discouraged plungers, still sore from their beating by Dartmouth, had beaten the Florida Alligators who had beaten Georgia who had beaten Yale. Harvard 14, Florida...
...readers of Mr. Weston's first novel will not be surprised by the original manner in which he presents a powerful story"--so runs the brief puff. Well, frankly, we were surprised by it. More than that, we were mollified. In such a frame of mind it is hard to get eye-to-eye and cheek-by-jowl with an author's intentions, supposing that he has some. And so, in trying to line up a few impressions of "The Patchwork Madonna" we are at more than a usual loss...
...fingers of guilt can be pointed at only a few of the exiles it is hard to discover the point of exacting such a harsh penalty. If, on the other hand, the whole group are guilty, it seems thoughtless of the college authorities to leave eighty landlords of the peaceful city of Ann Arbor to the mercy of such Bachanalian roomers...