Word: hards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Probably the Progressive tries too hard to force the situation into the dialectic of the class war. The great masses of Cambridge may be poor, but they have no direct contact with Harvard aside from visits by the Student Union labor sympathizers, and these contacts ought to arouse just the opposite of resentment. On Harvard's side, it must be denied that a large section of the students regard the people in the way the Progressive charges. It is more probable that most of them have little opinion one way or another about the Cantabridgians save after infrequent goading...
From the second period on it was a hard checking game, with frequent penalties and one near fight, after a body check by Win Jameson felled Bill Sullivan, Olympic first line center. Five penalties were called against the Crimson, four of them for illegal checking...
...often pathological cases, warped by a tough existence into a state of mind where they commit crazy, tragic actions--Mary Orr, for example, who just "upped" and deserted her husband after twenty years, or the Island wife who jumped into the sea one fine day. It is hard for us to regard these abrupt acts, that come with so little outward warning, as normal. We cannot understand the simplicity of a Thomas King who blows the head off his powerful body after carefully feeding his cows. We make our suicides spectacular...
Bingham pointed out that last spring saw 11 out of 11 crew races with Yale won by Harvard and this fall saw seven out of seven football games with Yale garnered by the Crimson, but added, "We're going to have a long, hard winter...
Last week in Millbrook (Little, Brown. $2.50) Author Lutes continued her homely reminiscences. In this volume her hardbitten, hard-eating, yo-year-old father has moved to a small 30-acre farm on the edge of a little village. It tells less about cooking, more about people, their gossip, scandals, fighting, country dances. Its highlights are Nell Peters' illegitimate baby, Cousin William's scandalizing city wife, the axe murder of Aunt Het. Like The Country Kitchen, its charm is that it dramatizes the horse-&-buggy atmosphere of an old almanac...