Word: hards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Women whose chief duty was to keep the home fires burning-somewhere-had their troubles too. On to hard-driven wives of low-pay workers went the added strain of higher food and clothing prices. They simply did with even less amusements, scarce anyway since the blackouts. Toughest economic time of all was had by wives of well-paid business and professional men called to the colors or the Government, or dismissed from their civilian positions. Their domestic overhead was out of all proportion to Army or civil service pay, and if the husband had no job at all, there...
Smith's Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow (acting President) : "Perhaps some of you are wishing at this moment that you might offer personal service over there. ... It is not your part. Your duty is to study hard, to try to understand ... to stretch your minds ... so that you may carry away from this place some judgment and perhaps a little wisdom for the world after...
...instead of ripping off strikes & spares, the pins go down only two or three at a time, and the pin boys are much too slow in setting them up again. The show has laughs, but never (as a farce must) piles up its laughter; everybody works a little too hard, tries to be a little too crazy. It's the old George Abbott formula minus the old George Abbott form: quite a drop from the headlong days of Three Men on a Horse and Room Service, when in the world of farce, the Abbotts spoke only...
Germany is the loudest, longest-winded propagandist on the Fourth Front, carrying out the Hitler-inspired rule: "Make it simple, tell them often, make it burn." London is next, then Paris. U. S. S. R.'s mighty Radio Moscow is hard to hear...
Skip Stahley's Yardlings were vanquished 20 to 14, in a hard fought encounter Saturday when Heyes, a substitute Exeter halfback 50 yards for a touchdown in the final period. This was the initial game for the Freshmen...