Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beside the body of a dead game warden, flees, and wanders all night in a driving snowstorm. When he is taken in by a farm woman who catches him stealing the bran mash she has set out for her chickens he falls into a sickness, later works for a harsh Methodist parson whose daughter he marries, and from then on concerns himself with the gradual accumulation of wealth as a small farmer...
...Government had not been announced to Berlin, but the mildness of Sir John's protest after Herr Hitler re-established conscription in defiance of the Versailles Treaty (TIME, March 25) was notice enough to the Realmleader that Britain would not join France, Russia and Italy in any harsh, concerted effort to make him toe dotted lines on which Germany has signed. Last week in Berlin the French Ambassador was received with studied discourtesy by German Foreign Minister Konstantin von Neurath when he called to protest. On a similar errand the Italian Ambassador was received with the deference Il Duce...
...Chamber the frantically popular keynoter of the week was Deputy Henry Franklin-Bouillon, famed for his opposition to the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 as "not harsh enough," and zealous ever since in demanding that it be enforced as harshly as possible...
...might not have been "impressed" by last year's protest to the Securities Exchange Act, it was strenuous public opposition, and nothing else, that made that measure in its final form a workable piece of legislation. Moreover, the President's views by no means jibed with the harsh wording of the Wheeler-Rayburn Bill itself, which President Hugh S. Magill of the American Federation of Utility Investors called "one of the most autocratic and destructive measures ever introduced in Congress...
...such bald outline can give even the superficial taste of this big (912-page) book. It contains hundreds of characters, scenes that range from harsh realism through satire and humor to passages of Joycean impressionism, Whitmanesque poetry. In form it is variously a narrative, an epic, a diatribe, a chronicle, a psalm, but in essence it is a U. S. voice. Author Wolfe's whole theme: "Why is it we have crossed the stormy seas so many times alone, lain in a thousand alien rooms at night hearing the sounds of time, dark time, and thought until heart, brain...