Word: harum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wobbly Wings. Wings are a characteristic of the Democratic party?the urban Irish-Catholic wing of Tammany Hall and New England; the conservative Protestant wing of the South; the rural radical wing of the Northwest; the free, harum-scarum wing of the Southwest. Governor Roosevelt, nominated by a heterogeneous combination of the last three, crushed the first wing, left it bleeding and broken. The Brown Derby is still licking its wounds in sullen silence. John Jacob Raskob, who kept the party alive through four lean years, has been unceremoniously exiled. Regardless of Mayor Walker's fate, Tammany can expect nothing...
Generally, when innocence becomes bliss, farewell innocence. Not so with Authoress Stern's delightful hero and heroine. Both infant prodigies, sophisticated apparently from the cradle up, they blissfully defend their childlike birthrights through 567 pages of close novel-writing, through five or six years of their harum-scarum careers...
Matthew Talbot, born in 1856, was a thin, small man with a high forehead and big eyes. As a youth he was a harum-scarum, liked to drink whiskey and would sell his shoes for a drop of it. Then one day he agreed to take the pledge-for three months. It lasted for the rest of his life. Employed in a lumberyard, he became known as a quiet, pious man. What his fellows did not know was that he slept nights on a plank covered with a single sheet, a block of wood for his pillow...