Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...roan. Early in the campaign Jack got a fever; he came home before the rest, yellow and thinner, with huge eyes. He could not sleep well now; Pietro Bernardone would hear him tossing on his bed (he lay on the top floor) and sometimes crying aloud, in a voice harsh with dream. Yes, Pietro Bernardone had been worried about his son. But now he was angry...
...Many of you like to moralize. This kind of activity is not profitable. It is better to kill with ridicule. A harsh word must be hurled out abruptly, like a blow; but in passing judgment you must remember that you are judging comrades whose life is very hard and who as yet do not understand the enormous demands of the present historic time. It is hard for them to understand this, because they haven't the time to learn...
...lips of suave James W. ("Jimmie") Gerard, ambassador to Germany (1913-17), author of My Four Years in Germany, one of those distinguished personages whom one sees when one dines at the Ritz. Mr. Gerard's remarks were placidly received in the Art meeting, but they sounded harsh to Democrats in the back country, many of whom have been his friends...
...uttermost farthing." He did. One child left home; another married a rotter; another became a felon. The youngest, whom Stephen really, finally loved, worked himself to death trying to please. Such a tale, such a well defined autocrat as Stephen Heath, might serve the ends of young things with harsh, exacting papas, but Author Forrest spoils most of his effects by belaboring the obvious, philosophizing stodgily...
...LORD OF LABRAZ-Pio Baroja -Knopf ($2.50). The Spanish hail Señor Baroja as their most popular living talespinner. He writes a little like Dickens, a little like Stevenson, always like a Spaniard-that is, with bold light, harsh shading. His story here is quite simple-a blind nobleman in a priest-ridden hill town quixotically shoulders his brother's misdeeds, earning only calumny and spite from the populace, renouncing society and going to wander, Lear-like, over the bleak table-lands with a wronged barmaid for his Cordelia, a Basque beggar for Poor Tom. It is fiction...