Word: hards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kutais we were arrested as British spies for taking photographs and spent two hours in jail. That night we slept on the floor of a schoolhouse. We only had five blankets. Mabel had one, the Armenian guide had one, and I had three. It was hard on Mabel...
...camping with Steinmetz, a young Dutchman wanted to blow up a stump. For dynamite he began mixing potassium chlorate and powdered sulphur but pressed too hard on a lump in the chlorate. A blinding flash, and the youth was found all bloody. Others were excited but Steinmetz, frantic, outdid them, jabbered English, German, gibberish, hopped from bed to chairs till quieted...
Character in a novel begins with the physical. Author Chapman has few physical descriptions, thus she has a hard job delineating character. Almost wholly she lets her people talk and describe themselves thereby; that far, at least, she succeeds with character. Indeed, her plots being fragile and her style under the influence of Thomas Hardy, the Tennessee idiom remains as her only virtue. Says...
This book should sell well because of its title, format, anonymity, style, story. Newly rich and resenting one of Husband Peter's infidelities, Patricia committed one herself, after drinking. Some time after she told him of it Peter threw her through a glass door and looking cold and hard went away with the virtuous Hilda. His reasons for making the break...
With equally bright insight, some impersonality, average epigrams and over all a great unconscious pathos continues the story of how Ex-Wife tried to make Ex-Husband's image dead in her heart. Numerous distractions, hard liquor, hard work and handsome men fill a certain gap, until she marries one of the last. Heroine and author are a bobbed, grey-eyed, short brunette still short of 30, mother of a five-year-old son. She is Katharine Ursula Parrott, ex-wife of Reporter Lindsay Parrott of the New York Evening Post...