Word: hards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard to embarrass as a wart hog, Ed Kelly had The Truth formally received and approved by the City Council. Then he departed for New York City to enjoy the World Series...
Madrilenos, now facing their third winter of siege, rationed only 100 grams (about three and one-half ordinary hard rolls) of bread daily, feared that their enemies' gifts contained poison. Leftist chemists said they contained only "moral poison," called the bread bombings a "grotesque" gesture by aviators otherwise engaged in "assassinating women and children in defenseless towns." Grotesque or not, the bread shower was a pointed reminder that in Rightist Spain only a few nonessential items (tobacco, coffee, sugar) are scarce, while in overpopulated Leftist Spain the problem of foodstuffs is nearly as acute as that which faced Germany...
Nathaniel Dett lives quietly in Greens boro, N. C., works hard at his job, Director of Music at Bennett College, aims steadfastly "to put Negro music on a truly dignified and artistic basis...
Kaufman & Hart's idea of a theatrical Remembrance of Things Past was bright: even the hard-boiled feel tender toward the theatre of their youth. But the adroit humorists of Once in a Lifetime and You Can't Take It With You hopelessly lost their way on such a sentimental journey...
...Only 22 miles long, it was the first railroad west of Schenectady. A pair of horses hitched in tandem pulled the original two-story, twelve-passenger day coach or "pleasure car." When addition of a 20-horsepower, wood-burning locomotive failed to pull Erie & Kalamazoo through ten years of hard times, it was sold to satisfy creditors...