Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because he believed that God's voice would speak out of the marsh more clearly than it had spoken out of the vineyard in Wiirttemberg - but be cause the land was fierce and cheap." Celibate Communists. Settling in Har mony, Pennsylvania, his harsh, puritanical doctrines and iron discipline turned the religious zeal of his "spiritual communists" to good account. Within a year his colony of 60 log cabins had become a thriving community with gristmill, barns, shops, houses of worship, sawmills, a tannery and a distillery. To keep his workers' energy channeled and profits limited, absolute celibacy...
Like "Our Hearts Were Young and Gay," "Roughly Speaking" is a record of personal history. Louise Randall Pierson's book told of a harsh tilt with life, beginning in Boston during the days when woman stonoga were looked upon askance, continuing through one unsuccessful marriage with the entrance of four children, and ending on the nana of a second world war to the tune of a second venture in matrimony. The heroine knew how to play the game of living with an American love for hard knocks, and her zest has been caught in the motion picture's robust abandon...
Chunky, beetle-browed Rev. Bernard Iddings Bell, 58, frequently chides the church he loves. This week at Dartmouth College, the Episcopal clergyman, taking a gloomy prophet's view of the San Francisco conference, spoke harsh words to Christians who want their peace both just and durable. Said...
...High Command had warm words of praise last week for Major General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force. It had helped slow the Japanese thrust into Shensi. But the General was in no mood to praise or be praised. He called in American and Chinese newspapermen to hear harsh news: thieves and gangsters in "both organized and unorganized bands" were hampering the operations of his air force...
...West, playing the lead in her Catherine Was Great to packed Chicago houses despite the drubbings of a harsh, hostile press, drawled back at her drama-critic detractors: "The way the boys wrote up the show, I'm surprised they weren't raided. And to think I took out the stronger lines . . . on account of Lent...